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sun enters Aries; spring commences March 20,
Oh. 3lm. p. m.
sun enters Cancer; summer commences June
21, 2h. 51m. d. m.
Earth in aphelion July 2, IIh. 37m. D. m.
sun enters Libra; autumn commences Sept. %
| 5h. 25m. a. m.
sun enters Capricorn; winter commences Dec.
II, llh. 26m. p. IN.
ECLTPsEs
There will be two eclipses in 1875; both of the
sun, as follows:
total eclipse of the sun, April 6, at Oh. 4OI5m
4. m Invisible to every part of the United States
| An annular eclipse of the sun, Sept. 30, par
TALLY visible at Chicago just after sunrise The
eclipse will be central on line which starts few
point where the 10th degree of north latitude cuts
the western coast of Africa, and ends Just beyond
the east coast of Africa in Is degrees south lati-
| tude The eclipse will be visible from every part
| of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Continent of
Africa. Venus will be in conjunction with the
sun at this time.
THE PLANETS.
Mercury-The following are the greatest elon-
cations of Mercury from the sun. For one or
two days before and after these dates he will be
visible:
In the West, after sunset, Feb. l3, Is deg. 8
min; June 8, "a deg. II min.; Oct. 6, p deg.
In the East, before sunrise, March 20, 81 deg.
SO min. July 81, 10 deg. AZ min. Nov. Is, 10
deg IL min.
TenuS will be a morning star being westward
from the Sun, during the first nine months of the
year. On New Years Day she is 30 degrees from
the sun, having receded from him so much since
the transit of Dec. s. She will attain her greatest
briliancy on Jan. Il, and her greatest elongation
on Feb Is, being 46 degrees 40 minutes distant
from the sun. She will be in superior conjunc-
ton with the Sun at the eclipse of Sept. 20, and
an evening star from that date till the end of the
year.
Mars will be morning star during the first five
months of the year. On Jan. 13, he will be less
than degree north from the bright star known as
Alpha in Libra. On Feb II, he will be only
minutes south from Graf1ias, or Beta in ScorpiO.
On the 25th of February, he will be due north
from Antares So degrees. On June 30 he will
be on the meridian at midnight and Just west
from the arrow head Of Sagittarus. He will Oc-
cult the star numbered as 3 in that constellation
at midnight of June 20. At the date of opposition
(une 20 he will be only 40 200 900 miles from the
EARTH with an apparent diameter of 23.3 seconds,
and parallaX of q. AZ seconds. He will then be
tOn especially in South America, at the Cape of
Good Hope, and in Australia; and measures of
his angular distances from the star above noted
will probably be made, as means of finding the
distance from the earth to the sun, fully equal in
value to that furnished by the transit of Venus in
December, 1874.
Mars viii be visible in the evening skv the last
half of the year. Sept. % he will be only 10
minutes north from Sigma, the brightest star in
Sagittarius, and will pass through the cOnstella-
ton Aquarius in November and December.
Jupiter will be an evening star till April l6 the
date of his conjunction with the sun; and morn
ing star from that date till Nov. 4, when he will
greater part of the year he will be nearly between
Arista (the brightest star of the Nirgin) and AL
pha in Libra. He will be north from the latter
star on Nov. 9, an angular distance Just equal to
the average diameter of the full moon.
Saturn will be in conjunction with the sun, on
Feb. >, and on the meridian at midnight (in OppO-
sitiOn) on the 18th of August. At the lastnamed
date he will be degrees northeast from Delta the
most easterly of the prominent stars in Capricorn
and will pass just westward, and then eastward,
over that star during the remainder of the year
IN
January the greatest external breadth will be to
the least as 81 to L; and in the last half of the
year as to i.
Uranus will be on the meridian at midnight on
the I'd of February, when he will be degrees
northeast from Alpha in Cancer, nearly half way
between that star and Epsilon in Leo. He is
easily seen with the naked eye. He will be visi-
be near that place, in the evenings till July;
will be in conjunction with the sun on Aug. Is,
and rise before him during the remainder of the
year.
Neptune will be on the meridian at midnight
Oct. p. He will then be four tenths of the dis
tance from FL Rischa towards Hamal, and very
little to the left of the line joining those stars.
Not visible except through the telescope.
coNJUNCrIoNs AND OSCILLATIONS.
March %, in the morning, Venus and Saturn
will be only Ia degree apart, rising before the
sun.
May 20, evening The moon will rise between
us and Antares; and leave the star about half
past O'Clock.
minutes south from Neptune, They will be visi
BILE in the telescope, nearly together, the morning
before and after.
July 10. at ,: 26 p. m, the moon viii pass very
close to Mars. They viii then be below the hori-
zon, but may be seen not far apart on the evening
of that day.
Aug. 10, in the morning, rising before the sun,
Venus and Mercury will be about a degree asun-
der.
Aug %, at :I5a. m. to ? :25 a. m, the Moon
will occult Zeta in Aries.
Sept. s. at 10 O'Clock p. M, the moons dark
limb will touch Gamma in Sagittarius.
Oct. 25, at 3:36 a. m. Venus will be only %
minutes south from Jupiter, both rising before
the sun.
Oct. 26, at IN. 8 a. M, Mercury will be less
than deg. south from Jupiter; both rising be-
fore the sun.
On the mornings of the 25th and 26th, Mer-
curry, Venus, and Jupiter will be near each
other.
Nov. 13, at half-past O'Clock a. m, the moon
will appear to touch Zeta in Aries.
Nov. 81, at 10h. 3m. p. M, Mars will be only
l3 minutes south from Saturn.
Dec. IL, at O'Clock a. m. +, the moon will visit
the Peiades, and touch +, star of the fourth
magnitude. E. COLBERT.