Get out the telescope anyway, and take a look at Venus and Saturn. Both planets will look better in your telescope if you observe them right after sunset as soon as you can spot them in the sky. They will still be rather high in the sky then and won't suffer as much from the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere. Both planets will be blurred by our atmosphere when they sink lower in the sky. At that time, the sun crosses the equator heading north.
Spring begins in the northern hemisphere.
Blue Moon of spring Much as been reported lately about blue moons. That's not surprising because there will be two of them in the first three months of 1999. Blue moon refers to the second full moon in a given calendar month. We had a full moon at the beginning and end of January and we'll have another pair of full moons during March. That second full moon during a given month is called the blue moon.