The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-11-08
THE PLANETS IN NOVEMBER.
The Appearance and Movements of tn
Heavenly Bodies of the Solar System.


Heavenly Bodies of the Solar System.
From the Providence Journal.
Neptune IS morning star until the 18th
when he changes his role to that of even
ing star. He merits a distinguished
place among the shining brotherhood,
during thu passage Of the month, for he
reaches the point in his career of the
greatest Importance to observers on this
planet. If telescopes improve in power,
and practised eyes improve in ability
to discern, this is the portion of Nep-
tunes course when there will be a posi-.
bility of making discoveries on his dis
tant disc. 1t may be only the suspicion
of a belt, it may be only An additional
satellite, for this is the most that can be
anticipated from the observation of an
object that when nearest is 1900, 900, 600
miles away. An inhabitant of this
planet, stranded on the Neptunian shore,
would behold different conditions from
those that prevail in the earth's more
favored cline. The sun would look like
q bright day star, the size of Venus when
largest.
All the other planets would be infer
ior, and most of them would appear to
recede only few degrees from the sun.
He may be found in the constellation
Taurus, about - Southwest Of Pleiades.
A telescope with an aperture of two in
ches will bring him out in favorable
weather as small round disk 1t re-
quires much more powerful telescope
to reveal his satellite, tiny point of
light close to the primary. There are
many things to interest observers con-
corning this distant planet ranking next
in size to Jupiter and Saturn. If we
could approach nearer to him doubtless
we should behold grand spectacle, solve
the mysteries detected in his peculiar
spectrum, and-most to be desired of all
find out if planets hitherto unknown
lie hidden in remoter regions of space.
Meantime Neptune plods on his slow cir
cult of 1875 years.
Neptune rises on the LIST about half
past o'clock in the evening.
Jupiter is morning star and passes an
important epoch in his course. On the
Goth, at 3 o'clock in the morning, he is
in quadratrre with the sun on his Wes-
tern side. He rises at midnight and sets
at MONDAY. With telescopes of small
power this SUI erb planet presents the
appearance of large, round disc. But
only the best telescopes in the hands of
the best observers will reveal the mag
nifcent belts, with their changing tints,
and the spots that from time to time APP
pear and Disappear on his disc. 1t is re-
corded that in the clear atmosphere of
Sout hern Australia the second and
third satellite have been seen 70 emerge
at sensible distance from the limb of
the planet.
Jupiter for six months to come will be
in most favorable condition for observa-
ton, more SO than will be the case for
several succeeding years. He rises on
the LIST not far from 1 o'clock in the
morning.
Saturn is morning star and rises on the
LIST few minutes before half-past :
o'clock in the evening
Venus is morning star, but no longer
in the ascendant; for it is now her time
to hide her diminished rays" She is
getting every day nearer the sun and in
creasing her distance from the earth.
She rises on the LIST at 3 o'clock in the
morning; on the Both she rises at 4
o'clock.
Uranus is morning star. His path lies
very near that of Venus at the beginning
of the mon'h h. He rises on tho first
quarter after clock in the morning.
The November moon fulls on the Sd
at 1856 O'Clock in the morning, standard
time. The moon is in conjunction with
Neptune on the Sd. and with Saturn on
the 9Th. She is at her nearest point to
Jupiter on the 18th, and to Uranus on
the 18th. She makes charming ap
pearance on the Eastern sky in commune
ton with Venus, on the morung Of the
18th, three days before her change, the
waning crescent hanging % South OF the
morning star On the 18th the new
moon is in conjunction with Mercury.
and fultils her round by paying her re
spects to Mars on the 10Th.
The earth, as she swings her ponderous
bulk in her orbit, encounters, about the
18th, the November meteor zone. This
gigantic hoop or eclipse consists of
swarm of particles following Temples
comet in it's orbit. This unfortunate
visitor from the star depths on arriving
within the solar domain unwarily ven
tured too near the planet Uranus. The
planet captured the comet, and forced it
henceforth to revolve within the boun-
diaries of the solar system.
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