The Moon reaches apogee, (greatest distance from Earth), this month on Thursday March 5th at 7 UT (1 am CST). At that time the Moon will more or less be at a distance of 31.86 Earth diameters (406,384 km or 252,515 miles) from the Earth.
Our Moon orbits around the Sun with the Earth and from our perspective on the Earth the Moon appears to circle around the Earth. However in reality the Moon orbits the Sun together with the Earth*.
Click here to go to the Qué tal in the Current Skies web site for more observing information for this month.