Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-10
NOVEMBER SKIES.
What the Rearens Haze to Sho,ctHfs MOI,
i-1Ioyatn0 and EUeling Stars.

WRds the Redce7as Haze to Sho1UtRis Month
i-Mormtn0 and EUe,sing Stars
According to the astronomer of The
Providence Journal, the morning stars for
November are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and
Uranus; the only evening star through the
month IS Venus, although Neptune be-
comes evening star on the 18th and Mer-
curry on the Goth. On the 2Sth at II O'Clock
in the evening, Saturn is in opposition
with the sun, reaching his eliminating
point in size End brilliancy for the pres
ent year. This is the point in his orbit
when he is nearest to the earth, thus &C
counting for the splendor of his appear
| ance. Instead of being 1,01400O,O00 miles
from the earth, his distance at contraction
is 831 100000 miles. But mis-
| nearness to US is not the only
| reason for his beautiful appearance,
His rings are open nearly to their widest
extent, and he will, therefore, be superb
object for observation during the month,
! being above the horizon nearly the entire
night, and needing no one to point him
| out as he pursues his shining course near
| the Pleiades and Aldebaran. telescope
of moderate power will give surprising
| ly lovely picture of the ring-girdlea
l PtohOt, e1A0 OEClJ OIO iAtOICSICo LII dSlICi-
| omy should. if possible, obtain a view of
this wonder of the heavens. Mars now
rises only twenty-five minutes after Jupi-
! ter, the latter now rising at 1920 in the
evening. Venus now sets only forty min
utes after the sun, and at the end of the
month will remain above the horizon about
an hour after sunset. Neptune is in op-
position with the sun on the 18th, at 4
o'clock in the morning, and at this
i time is under the most favorable
/ conditions for being seen. He
is now among the small stars of the con-
stellation Aries, near the boundary line OF
Taurus, and nearly west of Aldebaran, the
only bright star in the neighborhood. A
good telescope sweeping the field where he
lies will quickly detect his presence, for
small, ill-defned sphere with preceptible
disc will suddenly spring into being, while
the surrounding stars still remain % nero
points of light. Neptunian astronomers
have an advantage over terrestrial ones,
and can find little difficulty in measuring
the distance of the fixed stars. While the
earth has only 18O,000,000 miles-the
diameter of her orbit-Neptune Gsweeps
around the sun in vast orbit whose
diameter or base line is 5,550,000,000 miles,
But there are disadvantages to counter
balance this advantage. 1t takes Neptune
165 of our years TO go once around
the sun, and Neptunian astrono-
ers must wait more than eighty years to
make measurements in opposite points of
the orbit. The sun as seen IN the Nept-
tunian sky measures sixty-four seconds,
little more than the greatest apparent
| diameter of Venus as seen from the earth.
! Uranus is morning star, and pursues his
slow and solitary way among the insight
: icaDt stars Of Virgo. He, like Maras, is
moving in direct course, though at pres
: ent he is hard to find in an ordinary tele-
scope. Prof. Young has succeeded in
gaining some fine views of him in the
I Princeton telescope. he has also detect
|: ed some faint markings on his disc, by
means of which he hopes to determine the
' time of his rotation on his axis.
The November moon fulls on the 14th
z at fifty three minutes after II o'clock in
S the morning. None of the planets lie
3 near the path of the moon until she nearly
|, reaches the full, when she is in conjun J.
g ton with Neptune, the planet being G
t quarter Of degree south. On the 18th,
G at MONDAY, the moon is in conjunction
: with Saturn, l degree minutes south
Observations in some localities in south
= OeCllndtlOn Will see ObLurD OCCulteC, Ills
? being the eighth occultation of the planet
o that has taken place during the year. On
d the 10Th the moon is at her nearest point
to Jupiter; Oh the Goth she is near Mars;
q on the 23d she is near Uranus. On the
Il 20th the new moon is in conjunction with
q Mercury. On the 9th, the day before the
y first quarter, the moon accuIts Beta Capri
y corDi, star of the third magnitude in the
{ constellation Capricornicus. The disap-
y pearance or immersion of the star occurs
! ! at five minutes after eight o'clock in the
y evening, Washington meantime, and about
u twenty four minutes earlier according to
! Boston time. The immersion, or reap
. pesrance, takes place at four minutes after
II nine o'clock, the occuiation continuing ff-
;. ty-nine minutes. The phenomena is q
= beautiful one and worth taking pains tC
y see, while the hour of the exhibition is con.
venient. AS the moon travels from new tc
full with her dark edge foremost, the darH
edge will frat overtake the star. Observers
will see it apparently blotted out from the
sky as it disappears behind the dark por
+ ton OF the moons disc.