USPS Star Calendar for 28 February to 6 March

28 Feb
Full moon at 1637 UT, 1137 EST

1 Mar
Saturn is 3 or 4 finger-widths to the moon’s upper left this evening. Spica is nearly 2 fist-widths to its lower left, and Arcturus is nearly 4 fist-widths far to the left or lower left.

2 Mar
Tonight Spica is 2 finger-widths to the moon’s lower left.

3 Mar
Low in the southwest before dawn, you’ll find magnitude 1.2 Spica 2 finger-widths above the moon and Saturn 2 fist-widths to the moon’s right.

4 Mar
Before dawn, the moon is between Spica 1 fist-width to the right and Scorpius nearly 3 fist-widths to the left.

6 Mar
The waning gibbous moon is in the head of the Scorpion this morning.