Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-08-17
me AUGUST PLANETS.


.,vns. stars, Areturus, fed-fiEssd An
liant. i. found no. far from the prolongl
49,, ef the handle Of the Dipper. IS III
c,,s Bear j. commonly called, and % h
..s,..d Of il. and shout one third Of tn
A...nes 10 vegs, 10 q semi-circls Of bril
s.,,. called the Northern Grown, Who's
,,;.s,>.s ,-lnkisr il called Alpbseca.
I,sser IN the evening large white sta
..r,~. c.psils, may be seen showing itseI
sboge the horizon.
aseshsr attractive feature in the Angus
,.czrsusa.e - offered by the reteors. Thers
iii probably be an exhibition Of the "Tesr'
ga Laurence, ia memory Of the mar
,r,.d ,sinr sbose birth OCCURRED on Aug
n zss year. after the beginning OF shs
r,>,snt era. They are 70 be looked foi
,,su the 9Th to the l2.h Of the month.
The persslds. or August naeteors. are old
Inhabitants Of the solar system. and tins
,.,,iel.. are widely scattered THROUGHOUT,
m. immense nse,sor zone, whose periheiion,
a, psasess point, to this star Fest on the
..rh', orbit and whose aphelion or fartaes,
houaSa,v lie. far beyond the path Of the
A;.,.n. Neptune They got the name Of
Psr.e,i. because the point from which they
s.r, IN the constellation of Psrseus.
The neon enters upon the phase Of last
sssr,er ca the Iih, and tso days later is in
rouiunet.on viih Jupiter. followed on the
ssr, aay by conjunction with Neptune.
IN the !i,h, when the new moon is due.
,s,r, viii be conjunction with Mercury,
,allaye4 On the 18th, with similar meet
ing Nth Mars
IN the 18th, Lunas whit. arms are eI-
landed toward Venus; but while this is the
n.srsa approach toward an attractive pic
tire that observers are 10 be favored with
for the month It misses being equal TO
many tha; haze already been seen.
Later 10 the month, however there are
70 be other. whose briilisacy and pictures
aasne.. are veil worth waiting for. On
the 18th Uranus receives a visit, bat the
distance u / - degrees prevents there be-
ias sny,hiuz sorthy d special comment.
ur.aa. and the quartering moon are at
tbsi, nearest on the i7th,
The milky ~sy toward the south At this
.ea.on swell sorth studying. II 10 strange
when those complex branches loops and
cur..linz masses are looked at to find q num-
bsr Of the books Of astronomy still assert
,na hat tie milky way il faint stream Of
misty light rirciing the celestial sphere.
Vena. eoatlnues arssiag farther and far
tbcr from the .Gn. giving the while a long
er look at her fsir face until early in De
cemt,r. zhen. 1t a distance Of g. degrees
.nI - ninatss from the center Of the so
lar .y.'csn, she Will have reached the posi-
ton known a. greatest eastern elongstiou-
en- .he 1870 At about o'clock in the morn
,ng. Venu. - IN con junction with the moon,
~hDcs pa-se. about ! - degrees to the
uorihaArd
Nrrenry begin. the month AS an evening
.tsr but ou tle 9Th is in inferior con-
Junction ~i'l the .uu, ard passing to the
srn-arI !. for the remainder Of the
month cI1.,..t r,,h the morning planets.
Nepiuoe AMI ,hr waning crescent are at
their closest ga the It'll, which t.Ils the OBJ
server that The planet Is morning star.
Un tbs 2.i Jupiter Will have completed a
quarter ef is distance around the sun,
upon that Isy reaches the position of
qaslfrtur,. tiu thc 9Th II is in opposition
With the moon bAt at far too great di,-
tsn,t 10 prove AZ attraction
Saturn reaches BIS highest meridian alii-
tude about O'Clock IA the afternoon, but
he all ct there al O'Clock before the
month 8. out. lie shines about as the first
msgui,uls s'sts not far from Spics in III
constellation If the Virgin.