The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-01
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The Earth Flying Through Space Sixty
Times The Speed Of a Cannon Ball

,..viu Be 5000, 900 Miles Nearer the
s,r Tomorrow Night Than 1t Was
g. Months Ago-A Pretty Good Jog
sor a Body of Its size-rhis Month
s+sr-Tazers VIII Have a Good View
sTupiter-Where to Look for Him.
The rlanets Mercury and Venus are now
81, the opposite side Of the sun and hence
.t., are invisible. The former has Just
,s.sed its aphelion, and it will be in su-
-f,r conjunction on the 9th.- After this
s,..ft will be evening star. but it cannot
b.. s.en until about month later. Venus
will be In aphelion on the sth and viii
som appear as evening star.
The earth viii pass its perihelion at :
.,..ioek on the evening of the 2d. 1t will
.,,s, he three million miles nearer to the
srr than in July. Its velocity is $500
,,ila. an hour, or about sixty times that
nj n cannon bail in its swiftest flight.
Mars is on the meridian at O'Clock, and
g. nav be easily recognized by its large
TO- and rudy color. 1t is now in the
-.,,s+4Ilation Aries near the present track
~ Tho moon We are rapidly receding
f-or Mars now, and its apparent motion
IS retrograde.
1,,niter is now in fun view in the east
soon after dark. 1t is by far the constella-
+f,r Gemini, and its declinatlOn is . de-
-raes Is minutes north. 1t is by far the
brishtast star in the heavens and hence
if cannot easily be mistaken. The other
Ire star rising a little later and farther
N The south is Sirius, the brightest of the
fixed stars.
Iupiter's position is now specially favor
able for observation, and those who pos
cess a telescope even of moderate power
will have no difficulty in seeing its moons.
4 GOOD opera glass on a clear night will
show one or more of them. 1t viii be in
teresting to watch from night to night the
retrograde or westerly motion of Jupi-
Ter among the stars. OF course the real
motion of this planet is eastward, and its
aDparent opposite motion is due entirely
70 our greater motion eastward. Jupi-
ter's apr aren't motion, however, will soon
become direct.
Saturn and Uranus are now morning
stars but their great distance and their
apparent proximity to the sun render
them almost invisible. They are, how
ever. gradually coming into more fav-
orable position for observation.
Neptune is never visible to the naked
eve Notwithstanding the fact that it is So
times as large as the earth. 1t is now in
the constellation Taurus nearly directly
overhead at 10 o'clock. The large red
star in the shaped group Of the Hyades
is Aldebaran. If now a lire be drawn
from the vertex of this V through Aide
baran and extended as far beyond it will
Indicate nearly exactly The position Of
Neptune.
In the north Cassiopiea and Perseus are
above Polaris, Cepheus and Draco west,
and Ursa Major below and to the east.
In the cast Cancer is just rising, CAMS
Major and CAMS Cinor with the bright
stars Sirius and Procyon are the horizon.
Orion with its glittering host is well up,
and Taurus and Aries are near the me
rdian. In the northeast Auriga with the
bright star Capella is well up higher is
Perseus, just west of the meridian is
Andromeda, while Pegasus is nearing the
western horizon. Otis Ashmore.