The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-01
ECLIPSE At THE EQUINOX.
The Noon to Go Under a Shadow After
the Sun Crosses the Line.

THE Eclipse Invisible in This Coun-
trv-The Days and Nights to Be OF
Equal Length on March 2o.-An of
the Planets Except Two on the Same
side of the Sun This Month-An Un-
usual Grouping Venus an Early
Riser Now - A Good Time to See
Saturn.
The earth in its annual course around
the sun will arrive at the vernal equinox
At 7:21 O'Clock on the morning of March
% when the days and nights will be
equal. The sun on that morning will rise
exactly in the east, and this circumstance
will enable anyone to locate with precis-
ion that point of the horizon and to mark
It for future reference.
ATS o'clock on the morning of March
20 a partial eclipse of the moon will occur,
but it will be invisible in the United
States. II will be visible in the Pacific
ocean and throughout nearly all Asia.
THE PLANETS.
The planets present an unusual group
ing this month, all except Jupiter and
Neptune, being on the same size of the
sun. Mercury is now near its perihelion
as evening star, but on March IA it will
mass its inferior conjunction and will be
morning star till May 20. Mercury can
not be seen to much advantage during
this month.
VENUS
This planet, lately so bright in our west
ern skies at dark, may now be seen peep
ing above the eastern horizon at day
break. This change from evening TO
morning star was a sore puzzle to the
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stand. Indeed, they thought these two
distinct stars. The one called Hesperus,
or Vesper; the other, Phosphorus, or
Lucifer. Venus will be brightest on March
%. ~.
Jupiter, so long an object of our admira-
ton and study, will soon begin to sink
rapidly from view in the west. 1t is,
however a conspicuous object in the CON
stellation Taurus near the Pleiades.
SATURN.
This planet rises about 10 o'clock about
seven degrees south of the east point of
the horizon. 1t is about tour degrees
northwest of Spica, the large star in
Virgo 1t is plainly visible to the naked
eve as star of the first magnitude. We
will soon be in better position for study
ing this curious member of the solar sys-
TEN.
URANUS AND NEPTUNE.
The telescope will reveal Uranus near
Alpha Librae, which rises about 10
o'clock. We will be nearest this planet
in May, and it may then be observed I'M
der the most favorable circumstances.
NeptUnes motion is so slow that it
changes its position but little from month
TO month. 1t may still be seen in Taurus,
near Aldebaran, the bright red star in
the Hyades, q little past the meridian at
dark.
CONSULTATIONS AND FIXED STARS.
Along the ecliptic Leo, with the bright
star Regulus in the Sickle. is just rising,
Cancer is well up, Gemini is on the me-
ridiau, Taurus is past, Aries midway and
Pisces is just setting. Sirius, the bright
est of the fixed stars, is in the south,
just east of Orion. Nearly overhead
and little to the north is Capella in the
constellation Auriga, This bright star is
moving at the rate of 1900 miles a min.
ute, and so distant is it from US that
seventy years are required for its light to
reach US, Near by it may be seensa tiny
triangle formed of three small stars
called the Kids. About nine o'clock,
Arcturus, the large red star in the con
stellatiOn Bootes, rises about twenty de-
grees north of the east point of the hort
zon. This star is moving at the astonish-
ing rate of 400 miles per second. Arcturus
Is mentioned in the Bible. See Job. tx, 9.
OTIS AsHMoRE