Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-06
The Planets in NAV.
INCIDENTS THAT MARK THE MARCH OF T
PLANETS DURING THE MONTH.

INCIDENTS THAT MARK THE MARCH OF THE
PLANETS DURING THE MONTH.
From the Providence Journal.
Venus will commence to run her course as
evening star on the 4th, when, at midnight, an
event occurs In her career that gives her q
prominent place on the annals of the month.
She is i'm superior conjunction with the sun,
passing beyond the sun, making her advent on
his eastern side, clinging closely to HIM for a
time. and hiding herself i'm his brilliant rays.
AS the weeks roll on, she will emerge from her
seclnsion, shine with full glow in the golden
twilight, and before the summer wanes will be
the loveliest object in the western evening sky,
While winter viii commence in earnest before
she reaches her point of greasest distance from
the sun. No true lover of the stars can gaze I'M
moved upon this beautiful planet, las like golden
bead strung on invisible wire, she oscilates
eastward from the sun until her goal is reached
on the Sth of December, and then retraces her
linked by chains lighter than gossimer, but i'm.
destructfble as the material universe itself. On
the 11th: Venus moving eastward from the sun
ward from the sun.
Neptune at MONDAY on the 18th is in conjunc-
ton with the sum- passing TO the suns western
side, and commencing his course as morning
star He is the first of the giant planets to reach
the goal: though the other members of the quar-
tet Will follow his example in due time. Nep-
tune is in conjunction with Venus on the 11th.
Jupiter is evening star throughout the MONTH
On the 18th. at 10 O'Clock in the morning he is
in quadrature on the suns eastern side. Jupi-
ter I'm quadrature is almost as impressive as
Jupiter in opposition; for, as the sun sinks be-
low the western horizon, this superb planet
holds his court in the zenith. The highest
heaven is a fitting place for the most dis
tinguished member of the SUMS family. who
though three months after opposition still re-
tains the golden uster, the large proportions and
the beaming aspect that distinguished him on
his nearest approach to the earth.
Mercury is morning star. and may be visible
10 the naked eye under the best conditions of
wind and weather, for the present is the first of
the three times in the year when there is any
prospect OF his being visible to the naked eye as
morning star. The observer must be keen-eyed
who succeeds in finding him. He rises on the
25th, about an hour before the sum- and nine
degrees south OF the sunrise point On the 18th
and on the 3oth he is in conjunction with Mars.
Mars Is morning star, and is near Mercury
during the whole month.
saturn is evening star. He is now a conspic-
uous object in the western sky, but at the close
OF the month will be too near the sun to be of
much account.
Uranus is evening star. At the close of the
month venus, Saturn. Jupiter and Uranus are
evening stars; Neptune, Mercury and Mars are
morning stars.
The May moon fulls on the 2Sth, at 81 min
utes after three O'Clock in the evening. The
moon speeds on her course without meeting
a single planet until the 10Th, when she is in
conjunction with Mars, and in conjunction
with Mercury four minutes later passing 22'
north She is in conjunction with Neptune on
the 14th. about three hours before new MOON
ana with Venus, on the same day, three hours
after new moon. On the 10th she is at her
and on the 23d to Uranus, being 10 IL south.
Inc close conjunction with Mercury on the 18th
Is an occuitaton to observers more favorably
situated and so is the conjunction OF Uranus
that takes place here on the Odd an occultation
to observers at the right points in the tar south
1hus our brothers and sisters, the planets
and our satellite. the moon, present charming
and varied aspects during the month of Nav
We have on the records the superior commune
ton OF Venus the conjunction of Neptune, the
quadrature of Jupiter, and the western eionga-
ton OF Mercury, in which the great central orb
is the chief actor. We have also the commune
ton OF Venus and Neptune, and two conjunc-
lions OF Mercury and Mars, wherein planet
Is not beh1nd-hand in contributing her part to
the celestial exhibition, for, besides swinging
her ponderous sphere near the whole family of
planets in turn, she occuits Mercury and Uranus
for the telescope delight of observers more for
Iunately situated than those who look upward
from this belt of the earth's territory.