Sharp County record., 1879-02-13

Jan. :, -. 10. os. July 6, 13, %, 27.
Feb. 2, q. is. -. AUG. 3, 10, II, "a 81.
March >, 8, iG, 23, 80 Sept, T.. a, 21, 2S.
April 6, 13, 30, u. Oct D y, r. -
May !, i, 1S -. Nov Y " 10, -, 0u'
June /, 3, Is, -, 20. Dec. 7, II, u, 2S.
The first full moon after the vernal equinox
will occur Sunday, April &. By the rule gov
erning the movable teaSts OF the Papal ana
Protestant Churches, the Sunday next sue
ceeding that is Easter Sunday, which, there
fore, falls upon April l3
THE SEASONS.
Sun in pergee Jan. 2, 3 p. IN.
Nernal equinox, March 20 5:44 p. m.
SIMMER solstice. June 2l, l:03 p, m.
Sun in apoeee, July ,, 2 p. m
Autumnal equinox Sept -, AZ a. m
Winter sOstice, Dec. II, 1885 p. M
San in perigee, Dec. 81, p. IN.
ECLIPsEs
There will be three eclipses during lSI9-
two of the sun, and one of the moon; nut
they are of little interest to dwellers IN this
region.
Jan. %, at six O'Clock in the morning, the
sun will be eclipsed. The phenomenon Will he
snnular along a narrow belt extending from
east longitude 81 deg. and south latitude Z'%
deg, to 14lH deg. east of Washington and
IA deg. norm. 1t will be visible as partial
eclipse to a distance of about 80 deg. on each
twirds of South America and the southern haI
of Africa.
July 10, at three o'clock in the morning,
there will be another annular eclipse of the
sum- the central line running from longitude
574 east and latitude 7% north, to l754 east
ana .23I south. 1t will be visible as Il par
tial eclipse from large part of the South
Atloutic Ocean, nearly the whole Of Africa
al hern Europe and Asia.
Dec IS, at 10 o'clock in the morning, the
moon will be eclipsed, being at the time below
our horizon.
THE PLANETS.
V1LIcan-It now Is almost .rtain that with
in the orbit of Mercury there are two or more
Llanets. A transit of one Of these may be eX-
pected to occur Sept. IS, but it may be too
early in the day to be visible from Chicago.
MTcluy-Will attain his greatest elonga-
tiOns from the sun as follows;
West, rising before the sun; Jan. 16 IA
deg.); May IA Us deg); Sept. us degJ;
Dec. Is (2215 deg.) 90, ,,o
East, setting after the sun; March 30 %
deg.) July 27 (27 deg.); Nov. 20 (22 deg)
His cOnjunctions with the sun occur Marcn
4, April II, June Is, Aug. l3, Oct D, ana
Dec. 10.
The most favorable time for seeing him
will be in the early evening of March %. At
that date Venus will be about deg. FUR
ther east than Mercury and may serve as adj
rectriX.
Venas-Will be an evening star during
more than eight months Her superior CON
junction occurring Dec. 5, 1878, she will be
nearly half an hour east OF the sun at tne
opening of the year, a little to the west or
CapricOrnus, and under the head stars OF Ihat
constellation Jan. IL. On the 23d OF the
month she is in conjunction with Jupiter,
min nIAnpt,
near the tail of Capricorn. In the evening Ot
March 2 she will be about Il deg. north
from Saturn, both being nearly II line with
the eastern side of the Square Of Pegasus.
April 15 she will pass just below the Pleiades,
and ten days afterward be 6$4 deg. north
from Aldebaran. She passes through the
southern part feeD of Gemini during May,
skirts the northern edge Of the Beehive Gus
ter June l3, is Dig. north from kegqluS
during the night of July 4, and in the after
noon of July 5 passes only 10 minutes
north from Uranus. She attains her greatest
elongaton east (45 deg 80 min.) the night
of July 15 and her greatest brilliancy. Aug.
19, 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
brilliaucY Oct 80.
MarS-Will not attract much attention
from naked eye observers in 1879 From MS
conjunction with the sun last September (2O)
to his opposition Nov. u, next, he is morn
ing star, rising before the sun; and at the
last-named date, his nearest approach, he Will
he some 46,000,000 miles from the earth. lie
will, however, be watched by astronomers IN
November with great interest. His two
moons, discovered by Asaph Hall in 1877, 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,O95, 300, that of the sun
being taken as the unit. In January, Mars
will pass through Scorpio, in February and
March through Sagttarius and Caprlcornus,
in April and May through Aquaries, in July
throush Pisces in August, Through Aries; and
he will be nearly stationary, not far from the
Pleades, in September and October. He will
then retrogade into Aries till Dec 16, and then
turn direct May 9 he will be less than one
degree south from Jupiter; and June 30, at
III. 36m. D. 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 nOrtn OF NO. % III ARIES, anu
in the evening of Nov. 20 will be only l min
ute Of arc south from Rho prime in the same
constellation. Mars will be near the moon in
the evenings of Sept 6, Oct. 4, Oct 3d. Nov.
26 and Dec. %; from which date the casual
observer may learn to recognize him among
the stars.
JupHer-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
he will be conspicuous in the constellation
Aquaries, about 10 deg. south from the five
stars known as the Urn, or the 4. This
planet is now nearing his conjunction with
Saturn, which will occur in The last half of
April, 1881; both being in conjunction with
the sun, as seen from the earth.
Nov. 20 Jupiter will pass II minutes of arc
south Of Sigma in AquarieS; the apparent dis
tance between the two being only about two
diameterS of Jupiter.
SatWn-At the beginning of the year will
be about 5 hours east from the sun, and below
the well-knownSquWe OF Pegasus, near which