Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-09
/, IN the SKIES
Are Starry TaIss Told BY Bleak
November.
The Evening and the Morning Stars,
Phases Of the Moon and Sua---
A Meteoric slwer
Coming.

glories of the skies promised for November
Nepture is morning star until the 18th,
when he changes his role to that o. evening
star He merits a distinguished place
among the shining brotherhood during the
tassage Of the month, for he reashes tho
point in his career Of the greatest import
ance TO observers on this planet Ii tele-
scenes improve in power, and pachced
eyes improve in ability to discern, this Is
he portion of Neptures course when there
will be a possibility of making discoveries
on his distant disc. 1t may be only the
suspicion of belt, it may &c my an
additional satellite, for this is the most
that can be anticipated from the
observation of an object that when
nearest is 5000 100000 miles away.
An inhabitant of this planet stranded on the
Neptunian shore, would behold therent
condition, from those that prevail IN the
earth more favored cline The SUI would
look ike bright day-star, the size O Venus
when largest, and his illuminating effects
would be lessened a thousand timss All
the other planets would be inferiof OF inner,
and most of them would appear to recede
only a few degrees from the sun. Probably
Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter may be visible,
but even the best telescopes would scarcely
pick up the remaining planets, so snail and
so near the sun, which viewed from this dis
tant standpoint T
JUiTTER Is MORNING STAR
and passes an important epoch IN his
course. On the 26th, at O'Clock IN the
morning, he is in quadrature with the sun
| on his western side. He is then at the
halfway house between conjunction andoP-
| position, is 90 west of the sun, rises at mid
| night and sets atnoonday. With telescopes
| of small power and under ordinary condi
tons, this superb planet presents the appear
ance of large, round disc. Higher mag
| rifying powers will show slight hattening
the poles. Bnt only the best telescopes
in the hands Of The best observes will
reveal the magnificent belts with
their changing tints, and the spots
that from time to time appear and disappear
on bis disc. Powerful telescopes, to- will
bring out the approach of the gibbousPhase
when Jupiter is in quadrature. At common
mes he, IS well as the other giant planets,
| arlC,rs ike a round orb, because Sf the
scat distance An observation Of the
| .reat planet in gibbousi phase is an astro,
omical feat difficult to accomplish. Some
| lines there will be only slight shade on
he limb farthest from the sun. Its re-
| ,orGed that in the clear atmosphere a
southern Australia the second and third
.atellite have been seen to emerge at ! sen
lie dis lance from the limb of the planet,
bis proving the reality Of the gibbous brm,
IS morning star No incident enhvens hi:
monotonous course during the month. But
ne is beautiful 10 behold as he wends his
| quiet way over the celestial course, ap
| preaching the goal that has been already
reached by his more distant brother.plane,
| Neptune, and shining with a serenely txil
| liant light among his brother stars. that
| lives foretaste of the phase he will pre-
sent, when, a year hence, he combines
very condition from which the best views
may be anticipated In tie telescope he i;
ma gni6cent beyond description. We never
| behold him through powerful glass with
out Nishin that just once he could be seer
in the same grand proportions pictured or
lie sky, where all the world might have {
,iew of the surprising spectacle by simply
| turning the eve towards the heavens.
| Saturn rises on tae lst few minutes be
lore halfpast seven in the evening; on The
eth lie rises about halfpast FIVE.
VENUS Is MORNING STAR,
Tut no longer in the ascendant; for it il
now her turn to hide her diminished rays.
be is getting every day nearer the sun ant
increasing her distance from the earth
| heSe two facts may be easily verified BY
observers as they note the lessening dis:anc,
between her and the sun and the lessenipe
Irilliancy OF her disc She is almost pling
ing southwark in her swift career reathing
southern declination on the Sd, and record
ing nearly 10 of south declnation atyth'
end of the month. Those who remembe
Ter glorious appearance last spring as even
ing star, when high up in the north, vii
readily perceive the contrast in her presen
phase. But she is lovely even in her ia 1iul
lustre, as, hanging in the morning sky, sh
IS still the suns bright harbinger.
URANUS is MORNING STAR.
HIS path lies very near that of Venus a
be beginning of the month. The tw
larets are in conjunction on the 18th, a
{ cclcck in the morning, when Venus i
~ roth of Uranus.
UIanus rises on the lst quarter after
cock in the morning; on the 3Oth h
i.,s at halfpast o'clock.
| M,rcury is morning star until the ith
hen he becomes evening star. He is il
superior conjunction with the sun on the 4tl
ut 5 clock in'the afternoon. This mean
that he is then insline with the earth AM
sun beyond the sun, and that he passet
from the suns western side to his eastern
he is too near the sun to be visible, and i
therefore of little account on the plauetsr,
annals of the month. b.
Mercury rises on the lst about halfpas
6 o'clock in the morning; on the 30th ht
sets about quarter after o'clock in tn
evening, ...
MARS Is EVENING STAR.
He, like most OF his brothers, is travelling
south. Not long since every planet in tn
system was in north dechnation. Al on
end of the month Venus, Mercury Uranus
and Mars are in south declination Not LON
since all the planets were morning stars
Before November closes Mars, Mercury AM
Neptune are evening stars. Movement
seemingly without order are in reality ex
COMPLICATIONS Of the answering law tina
regulates the course of every member of in
material universe.
THE MOON.
The November moon fulls on the Sd a
ihirty-six minutes after 3 o'clock in tn
morning, standard time. The moon is il
conjunction with Neptune on the Sd an,
with Saturn on the 9Th. She is at her near
est point to Jupiter on the 18th and to Ira
nus on the 18th. She makes chsrmin;
appearance on the eastern sky in copjunc
ton with Venus on the morning Of the l4th
three days before her change, the waning
crescent hanging 90 south Of the morning
star. On the 18th the new moon fills he
round by paying her respects to Mars on tn
18th.
THE NOVEMBER NETEoRS.
The earth, as she swings her ponderou
4 hoIk ~ har orbit encounters ohonk IN