The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-01-02

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The first full moon after the vernal equinox
will occur Sunday, April 6. By the rule gov
Protestant Churches, the Sunday next sue
eeeding that Is Easter Sunday, which, there
fore, falls upon April Ii.
THE SEASONS.
sun In perigee, Jan. 2 B p. m.
Nernal equinox March 20, 5:44 p. N.
SIMMER solstice, June u, / :53 p. m.
san in apogee, July 2. p. m
Agamnal equinox, Sept. %, 4;27 a; m.
Sun in perigee, Dec. 81, s p. m.
ECLIPsEs.
There will be three eclpses during 1ST9-
two of the sun, and one of. the moon; but
they are of little interest to jewellers in this
TegiOn.
Jan %, at six O'Clock In the morning, the
sun will be eclipsed. The phenomenon will be
annular along q narrow belt extending from
east longitude 81 deg. and south latitude 271$
deg, to 14I15 deg. east of Washington and
"a deg nOrlh. 1t will be visible as a partial
eclipse TO distance OF about 30 deg. on each
side OF that belt, the area including about two
twirds of South America andthe southern had
Of Africa.
July 10, at three O'Clock in the morning,
there will be another annular eclipse of the
sun, the central line running from longitude
81 Il asst and latitude "a north, to l75Il east
ana 2i4 south. 1t will be visible as par
tial eclipse from a large part of the South
ktl7ntic Ocean, nearly the whole of Africa
d Southern Europe ard Asia.
Dec IS, at 10 O'clock in the morning, the
moon will be eelitsed, being at the time below
our Horizon.
THE PLANETS.
VHcdn--lt now is almost c rtain that with
! in the orbit of Mercury there are two or more
/ Ilane's. A transit of one of these may be ex-
! pected 20 occur Sept Is, but it may be too
! early in the day to be visible from Chicago.
! -Hdrc,uy-Will attain his greatest elonga-
/ tons from the sun as follows: -..-.
| West, rising before the sun; Jan. 16 ga
ieg.); May IA (2S deg); Sept. Us deg);
East, setting after the sun; March 80 C9
/ leg.); July % az deg.) Nov. 20 (22 deg)
His conjunctions with the-sun occur March
! 1, April II, June is, Aug. Is, Oct. 5, aud
/ Dec 10.
| The most favorable time for seeing him
will be in the early evening Of March y. At
that date Venus will be about deg. FUR
Their east than Mercury, and may serve as dl-
rectriX. .-a...a..
Vcaus-Win be an evening star during
more than eight months Her superior con-
! Junction occurring Dec. 5, 1873, she will be
! nearly half an hour east of the sun at the
opening of the year, little to the west OF
Capricornus, and under the head stars OF that
constellation Jan. IL. On the Odd of the
month she is in conjunction with Jupiter,
near the tail Of Capricorn. In the evening OF
March she will be about "a deg. north
from Saturn, both being nearly II line with
the eastern side of the Square of Pegasus.
April 15she will pass just below the Pleiades,
| and ten days afterward be ia deg. north
from Aldebaran. She passes through the
southern part (feet) of Gemini during May,
skirts the northern edge of the Beehive clus-
ter June Is, Is l deg. north from Regulus
during the night of July 4, and in the after
I noon of july passes only ID minutes
north from Uranus. She attains her greatest
elongation east as deg. 30 min.l the night
Of July 15 and her greatest briliancy Aug.
10, and is very near the moon at noon OF Aug.
20 She is in inferior conjunction with the
sun Sept. %, and thence becomes morning
star, rising before the sun during the remain
der of the year, and attaining her greatest
brilliancy Oct 30.
MarS-Will not attract much attention
from naked eye observers in 1879. From his
conjunction with the sun last September coy
TO bis opposition Nov. l2, next, he is morn
ing star, rising before the sum- and, at the
st-named date, his nearest approach, he will
he some &c, COG, 900 miles from the earth. he
will, however, be watched by astronomers In
November with great interest. His two
moons, discovered by Asaph Hall in 1S77, will
probably be visible only through very few
telescopes, including the one at Chicago; and
the observations then made will enable as
tronOmers to fix precisely the periods OF revo-
luton of the satellites, and thence to correct
the present estimate of the planet Mars
about one part in 3,0g5, 300, that of the sun
being taken as the unit. In January, Mars
will pass through ScOrpio, in February and
March through SagittaTius and Capricornus,
in April and May through Aquaries, in July
through Pisces, in August through Aries; and
he will be nearly stationary not far from the
Pleiades, in September and October. He will
then retrogade into Aries till Dec. 10, and then
turn direct. May he will be less than one
degree south from Jupiter; and June 30, al
In. 36m. p m, only one minute of arc north
from Saturn. These two planets will be very
nearly In conjunction during the night pre-
ceding and that following this date In the
morning of Nov. 10 he will pass Only II
minutes OF arc north of No. 50 in Aries; and
in the evening of Nov. % will be only l min
ute OF arc south from Rho prime In the same
constellation. Mars viii be near the moon in
the evenings of Sept g. Oct. 4, Oct 30, Nov.
26 and Dec. %; from which date the casual
observer may learn to recognize him among
the stars.
,J'tpter-Will be in conjunction with the
sun Feb Z, and in opposition Aug. 81. Hence
he will not be an object of interest to those
who only study the evening sky, till the latter
part of the year. During the autumn months
be will be conspicuous in the constellation
Aquaries, about 10 deg. south from the five
stars known as the Urn, or the K. This
planet is now nearing his conjunction with
April, 1881; both being In conjunction with
the sun, seen from the earth.
Nov. 20 Jupiter will pass IL minutes of arc
south OF Sigma in Aquaries; the apparent dis
lance between the two being only about two
diameters Of Jupiter ~
Sdtpn-At the beginning of the year will
be about hours east from the sun, and below
the well-known Square of Pegasus, near which
be meets Venus, in the evening of March 2.
His conjunction with the sun occurs March
aw.lk IL - l. L.
In the constellation Pisces. The last three
months of the year he will be visible evenings
to the naked eye as a star of the first magni-
tude, and will be very interesting object
through the telescope. His rings were COM
pletely closed up last March. They are now
widening out. The ratio of the apparent axes
Jan. will be to 25 nearly, and the LIST of
August about as to IL. We are now looking
at the southern side of the ring system of
Saturn, when we see this phenomenon. As
tronomers will not again see the northern face
of the rings of Saturn till early in the wear
1893, when they will have a good opportunity
to observe the change, as the planet will then
be about 30 degrees away from the sun.
Urdnus-Will be in opposition to the sun
Feb. 20. and may be seen about that date, and
Tor couple OF months afterward, with the
JIna1ded eye, by those who know where to
.oOk for him. He shines as star of the sixth
magnitude only. He may easily be found as
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known star Regulus, of the 18th magnitude,
in the handle OF the sickle of Leo. From that
star, 61S deg eastward, in line toward Spica,
is Rho Leonis, of the fourth. magnitude-easi-
ly picked up, because there are no other stars
near it. At the beginning of March Uranus
will be 3 deg. nearly northwest from Rho; and
at the end of the month a little more than 4
deg northwest by west from the same star.
These two distances are respectively equal TO
about 81 and eight times the apparent
breadth of the full moon. .
Nept,tne-Will be in opposition to the sun
Nov. 3, at which time his right ascens on viii
be hours So mn., aud his declination ID
deg. l616 min. north; not near any prominent
star, but very close TO an interesting nebula.-
He cannot be seen without the aid of a good
| telescope. -s-4..
OocUltatons-A few of these phenomena
will be Of interest during the coming year
We give the following notes of prominent
stars, tie .arpulses to which may be watched
with Interest through an opera-glass:
Aprii 10, in the early morning, the moon
being three days psst the full, and little east
of the meridian, will pass Just south of An
tares.
! June 8, about ten O'Clock, when east of the