The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-01

The first contact will occur on the
moons eastern limb l2s degrees from the
north point. and the last contact on the
western limb SO degrees from the north
point of the moon. The full moon will be
totally obscured when high in the heavens.
and altogether the phenomenon will be
rare and interesting one. Every one
should make 1t a point to witness it.
on the 26th there viii be a partial eclipse
of the sun, visible in the North Atlantic.
1t will not be visible in the south.
This shy planet, Mercury has just
passed its inferior conjunction and on the
oath it will attain its greatest western
elongation, at which time it may be seen
as morning star, just a head Of the sun
at day break. On the 23d the moon will
pass within one-third Of a degree of Mer-
curry, but the conjunction will take place
in the evening when the planet is Invisible
to US.
Venus is now rapidly taking her place
as queen of the evening sky, and low, in
the west just after sunset her resplendent
beams may be seen struggling with the
dense atmosphere near the horizon. Its
altitude and brlliancy will continue to in
crease every evening for several months,
during which time it will be the most
prominent object in the western heavens
The telescope shows Venus now to have a
crescent shape, indeed, this planet under
goes all the phases of the moon in its
journey around the sun. On the evening
Of the 2Sth the new moon will make a
pretty conjunction with Venus, passing
about four degrees to the north
If the observer viii turn his eyes to the
Pleiades or Seven Stars, high up in the
south at dark and a little past the meri-
dian, he will see a bright red star about
two degrees to the southeast of this group,
which is slowly changing its position from
night to night. This red star is the planet
Mars, which not many months ago, was
attracting so much attention among as
tronomers, on account of its near ap-
proach to the earth at that time. 1t is
now much farther away from us, and is
still receding. The planet Neptune is also
very near the same group, about three
degrees distant from Mars, but invisible,
as it always is, to the naked eye. The red
star to the east is Aldebaran in Taurus.
jupiter crosses the meridian at o'clock,
and is by far the most conspicuous object
in that part of the heavens. The only
other star that rivals it is Sirius, or the
Dog Star, farther to the south Jupiter is
now in the constellation Taurus, and in
splendid position for observation. The
telescope always reveals beauty and in
terest when turned upon this gigantic
world. More than thirteen hundred times
as large as our earth, It swings majesti-
cally in space with It's five moons revolving
around it in even varying positions The
discovery of these moons, it will be re-
membered, was the first triumph of the
telescope, and the potent witness that
swept from the human mind the fallacious
doctrine of Ptolemy.
Saturn and Uranus are in the constela-
ton of Libra now nearly on the opposite
side of the sun from us. Their great dis
lance from us now prevents satisfactory
observation of them for several weeks vet.
Almost directly overhead and a little
to the north is Auriga with the bright
star Capella. Near by is a small triangle
Of tiny stars called the Kids. High up in