The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-14

Moon and enus Close Tomorrow Night
Jupiter on the goth.
New York Times

Moon and Y enus Close Tomorrow Night
Jupiter on tho goth.
New York Times,
The most attractive number on the pro-
gramme will be on the 18th, In which Venus
and Luna are the star performers Less than q
quarter of a degree will separte the two and
az the moon Is about half way between the third
quarter and the new the size of her disk will not
be sufficient to interfere On the 18th Uranus
and the moon are at their closest for the month
Mercury fellows and then Mars, the last on the
9Th: but not one of the three will be of any
particular interest to us Jupiter's turn comes
once more, about midnight on the Goth, and
although the meeting Is not quite close as
the one earlier in the month it promises to be
most in viting.
Venus still reigns triumphant In the morning
skies and shines most gloriously some hours be-
fore suD-up. She Is drawing altogether too
close to the sun. and 1t win not be long before
We shall cease to see her beautiful face. The
eclipse, however, will result in having 70
gaze upon her az a more favorable time, for her
Disappearance as a morning planet means tat
when she comes back to Us II will he as queen
OF the evening skies. She Is at present in the
constellation OF the Lion, and the wonderful
meteors that have been mentioned may be taken
as rays OF dazzling brilliancy emanating from
the fatrest OF all the planets.
Jupiter IL quite the most interesting of the
evening planets, and although he is drifting
slowly away and his diameter is steadily
decresttng, his bright disk sparkles In the
heavenly vault, rendering him very easy to
distinguish from his surroundings. His two
meetings with the moon the last on
the 29th-are rather remarkable on account of
the close proximity in which the two will find
Themselves upon both occasions so il we miss
the first night we can Pr mise ourselves tina,
the second will be equally worth look ing out
for.
Saturn Is coming out from his long retreat,
aud il again attracting the attention OF those
VINO e early rising admits of their taxing IN
some OF the mos. interesting of the tsbleaux r.
corded on the monthly bulletin. He Is grad.
usliy drawing away from the sun, aud when we
fnd him dsxt year ranged among the evening
twiuklers he viii b. lager and more brilliau;
than we At pce~eHt see him
Mercury reaches rs greatest eastern elouga
ton OF the 23i This means that he is at his
point o. greatest distance from the sun during
this period OF his swinging around the circle
Every now and then Mercury ooos up sereney
and we are some hat surprised 10 see him, and
often wond why we nave not seen him in ap-
pareuty the same place ni.ht II ter u Sat rs we
do the other planet. His Violate Opposition
evidently needs closer wstchiag IMAM that Of
tie other membe OF the solar fsmiy. SO Oh
Sol keeps him. close under TIE psterna wing
and only occasionally allows him 10 wan
der far enough from home TO be seen ty
lowed 20 see him for the old man pulls The
string and away goes Mercury toward Ine sun,
Keeping up his pace Until he reaches the emf of
his tether on the other side of the sun, when he
gets another pull. aud back he comes again.
When ~ the end OF has Western trip he can be
seen about long in she morning SKY as we
now see him 10 the evening twilight
Mars We find bearing south, 50 he reaches our
merid.a 81 about O'Clock in the evening. but,
not having proved the grea: success adver-
tsed. ne IS getting away from Us rs rapidly as
PISS BILE. anu has Bresdy shrunA 20 less Ihan
hall the size ne was n the time We were trying
20 md out sll about his cana system and other
wonderful features. his CHEEKY rudtl uess stilI
clngs - him and ais identity il quite easily de-
terwiued. bat .o- th3 present his glory has de-
parted, and those who would disclose he secrets
Of til. wonderful planet must now content
them>elye> rs best t4ey may and walk wlth IA
thence the devel iDents that they confidently
believe Will follow wen he is again favorably
. situated ior observation.
rapus ami Neptune keep so lar from the
powers Of our unsl3et vision that We have 10
tsse largely upon faith whs, Is ssid IN relation
10 their locsiiy. Ths: they are large, and more
beautiful tnsa what We are actually permitted
- see. tas less distant planets move shout
among tie siars. can perhaps Well b imagined,