The sky, March 30-April 3: NGC 2301, ‘Great Bird Cluster’
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 30, 2026 Excerpts from weekly Astronomy.com report. Sunday, March 29 The Moon passes 0.3° north of Leo’s alpha star, Regulus, at 4 P.M. EDT. By the time darkness falls, our satellite stands about 3.5° east of this bright star. Shining at magnitude 1.4, Regulus sits nearly on the ecliptic — the imaginary […]