Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-05-17
A HEAVENLY SPECTACLE.
Exploring the Regions Of the Moor
Through the Largest Telescope
I'm ths Korld

Hartford College Letter 10 Providence JournaLl
The first object viewed was Saturn.
and the transformation is hkened 70
vision of fairYland. The pale star, on
which moment since We had looked
with the unaided eye, is now creation
of SURPRISING loveliness, the most
charming telescopic object the heavens
reveal. Saturn, his rings, and his
moons are before US. The disc,
q golden spere crossed by faint
cloud bands of a delicate creamy
tint, the wonderful rings softly Grad
hing the planet, seven of the eight
moons beaming from the dark back
ground of the sky, Titan the largest
moon showing preceptible disc, make
up the shining picture. Every detail OF
the magnificent and complex Saturn
system is complete-the shadowy
cloud bands on the disc; the outer
ring, with its faint line of division; the
division between the outer and inner
rings; the second or inner ring, the
third or crepe ring, closely joined to
the second, and the break in the ring
formed by the shadow of the planet.
Jupiter is the next object to test the
space annihilating glass The prince
of planets is superb, larger than the
full moon, though but little larger than
we have seen HIM many times in a
telescope of eight inches aperture. He
is however, much brighter on account
of the light collecting power of the
glass. Though by no means as mag
nificent as Saturn, he far exceeds him
in mass and volume, and as he is twice
as near, we see him on much larger
scale. The giant oe the system takes
on grand proportions; the food of
light lrradiating his surface brings out
every minute detail. HIS broad belts
are delicious in co.oring suffusea with
pale rose, mottled with soft gray, pur-
pie, brown, and delicate green. We
have seen Jupiter when the dfinltion
was much more perfect, but never.
with the variety of tint and tone we
behold this night; never before did
he seem so near, so grand in proper
tions, SO symmetrical in equipoise.
His four satellites are in line on his
left, and bear witness to the power of
the telescope by presenting discs in
stead of points. We find it difficult
to decide which of the two pictures is
the more beautiful. Saturn is more
magnificent, more complex, more curl.
Gus, but Jupiter is more majestic, more
like the great sun himself
The great nebula of Orion was also
inspected, and the little wisp of cloud
haze around the star in the sword of
the Mighty Hunter that is visible to
the unalded vision becomes one of the
most glorious spectacles that ever
breaks upon the entrance eye of an
observer. The most wonderful nebu.
10 the northern skies reveal is before
us. filling the field of view, and suf-
fused with a celestial light suggestive
of the holy city that had 'no need of
the sun, neither of the moon, to shine
in it; for the glory of God did Tighten
lit"
In conclusion, the editor says: "The
Russian objective will soon be trans
ported to It's destination in the Pulk-
owa hills, nine miles south St. Peters
burg. We shall never again behold
the wonders of the sky through its
great object glass, but as long as life
endures we shall remember the time
when we beheld, irradiated by its
light collecting power, and brought
near by its great eye, the magnifcence
of Saturn, the grandeur of Jupiter,
and the awe inspiring combination of
beauty, mystery, and shadowy form
of the great nebula of Orion"