The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-18
Tour Worlds to be Seen.

From the New York Sun.
-Four of the worlds, that, together
with the earth, are lighted, warmed and
governed by the sun. can now be seen
at the same time in the evening sky.
Venus appears in the west, long before
twilight ends, SO bright that no one can
fail to recognize her. In q line stretch
ing up the eastern slope of the heavens
are Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, Saturn
being highest and Mars bringing up the
rear. AT the same time the majority of
the first magnitude stars visible in this
latitude are above the horizon-Sirius,
the king of the suns, placed beside
which our sun would be almost invis-
ible; Rigel concealed in whose flashing
white rays the telescope reveals a little
star of the purest blue; Betelgeouse,
which glows in a good glass like a fiery
topaz; Procyon, whose stag
gerlng motions have shown to the eye
Of science the existence of n dark star
close to the bright me-, although no
telescope has V yet caught q CLEAN
of revealing light from it; Aldebaran,
the rose hued star that marks the eye of
Taurus; Capella, us white as a diamond,
and several others less brilliant.
A practiced eve quickly distinguishes
the planets before named from these
stars, but when a telescope is used the
similarity of appearance which some
times puzzles the observer with the
naked eye Mt once vanishes. The stars
remain only points of dazzling light,
even with the highest powers, while The
planets lose their resemblance to stars
and shine in the telescope, v G with
low nlagnifying powers. like moons.
Venus now resembles the moon when
near her first quarter. Saturn appears
as a round globe, surroundedhy broad
flat ring. Jupiter presents his great
oval face, streaked and spotted like &
harlequin, while his four moons circle
around him, their motion being easily
| p~erceptble during n single evening
Mars shows the ~glittering 10Y fields
! around his poles, and the outline of his
continents and seas, covered sometimes
by clouds.
A few years ago there was an extraor-
binary conyulsion of Jupiter, whose eff,
fects Acre shown by the sudden appear.
ance Upon the planet of q fiery red spot
which covered an area equal to the whole
surface of the earth. Latalv this spot
has almost completely faded from view
but other singular spots have made theil
appearance, and the surface of the equa'
torial regions of the planet seem to have
undergone a similar shifting toward its
south pole. 1t is most interesting to
watch these gigantic conyulsions of
Jupiter, for it is evident that in thai
planet we behold q globe which is now
undergoing some of the vast physica,
changes dimly limited at in the begin
ming of the the book of Genesis as hav-
ing preceded the qualification Of the
globe upon which we dwell.
Saturn, too, has of late exhibited in
dications of the operation of enormous
forces which show that it is in a condi;
ton very different from that ofthe earth
Anew belt has appeared nearits equator
which can be seen with o comparatively
small telescope, and which strikingly
recalls the appearance ofthe belts of its
giant brother Jupiter.
The astronomers have only begun the
conquest of these worlds.