The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-11-10
STANTON, VIRGINIA, NOVEMBER 10, 1881

come. No one will have any trouble in recog
nizing him few degrees above Jupiter, for h
shines with serene light that distinguish
him from the stars twinkling around him FL
has passed his prime and will soon glow will
a milder radiance, as he travels from the eartl
and approaches the sun. He sets now abou
5 O'Clock IN the morning; at the close of thu
month he sets at 3 o'clock.
| Mars is morning star,an increasing in inter
est as he takes on more ruddy hue and larger
dimensions. His increasing northern Geclina
ton is to denoted, for he is now seven de
grees farther north than Jupiter, and twelve
degrees farther north than Saturn He must
therefore, be looked for in the northeast, rising
a quarter before 9 o'clock, and may be easily
recognized by his fiery color and the line he
forms with Jupitnr and Saturn above him.
Mars now rises quarter before 8 o'clock al
the close of the month he rises at quarter
before o'clock.
Uranus is morning star, and his movements
during the month possess little interest. He
rises now at o'clock in the morning; at the
end of the month he rises soon after midnight
Venus is morning star, and appears each
morning later above the horizon as she draws
nearer superior conjunction with the sun. She
measures now eleven seconds in diameter,
while Jupiter measures forty-six seconds. But
her day of triumph will come when, in De-
cember, 1889, she reaches her inferior conjunc-
ton, and treats the world to a grand display
at her transit She rises now at quarter after
O'Clock in the mornings at the end of the
month she rises at half past o'clock
The sun is also an actor in the scenes that
diversity the experience of his family of worlds
during the month-on the 21st-When the
charming phenomenon ola annular eclipse &C.
ours. But the golden ring of light surround
i,,f I,o do h.
IDLE in the Southern ocean and in the southern
part of South America, so that observers will
be few in that inhospitable cline.
The November moon fulls on the 5th. She
is in conjunction with Saturn on the same day,
and is near Neptune and Jupiter on the 9TH
She is in conjunction with Mars on the 10TH
and with Uranus on the 18th. She is near
Venus on the 10Th, two days before her
change, when early risers may behold the
morning star and the slender crescent in the
breaking of the dawn. She pays her respects
to Mercury on the Goth, planet and moon be-
ing difficult to see in the light ofthe approach
ing sun.
November is rich in material for planetary
study. Mercury leads the list with an inferior
conjunction, a transit, and western elonga-
ton. Neptune follows Saturn in reaching OPP
position. Jupiter follows Neptune in arriving
at the goal, DOMINIC his most superb array for
the occasion. The great lum1nary himself
contributes his share to the festive activity of
his family in an annular eclipse. The moon
pays her respects to every planet in turn. The
grand line of planet clustering beyond us and
on the same side of the sun remains unbro-
ken three of the outer planets, Saturn, Nep-
tune, and Jupiter, arriving at opposition with
in thirteen days of each other The moonless
nights of mid-November will be glorious with
star-lit beauty Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will
reign as lords of the ascendant, and around
them will be grouped some OF the brightest
stars and consultations that grace the arma-
ment, those twinkling mysteries that fill the
the soul with emotions of wonder and awe
while it tries to grasp the boundlessness of
space and the all-pervading power that holds
in harmony the shining suns that people the
blue vault of heaven.-P Providence Journal