The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-01
AUTUMN'S BRILLIANT SKIES.
MANY OBJECTS OF INTEREST TO BE
STUDIED IN THEM.

Mercury Can BE seen Just at Dusk
NOvv-Venus is the Morning star,
and Can BE seen Only by EARLY
Rfsers-HOVv the beauty Planet
Fooled the Ancients-Jupiter a
Midnight Riser, and VIII BE Ready
i'm n Few Evenings 10 show on to
Advantage.
The bright autumnal skies Of mild Octo-
her will present many objects Of interest
to those who love the grandeur of the stars
and who can appreciate the beauty and
the meaning of these far of orbs Of
light" On the first mercury will attain
its greatest eastern elongation, and for
several evenings this shy planet may be
seen at dusk in the west, about fifteen de-
grees above the horizon and little to the
south of the suns track. on the 18th it
will be in inferior conjunction, and on the
2Sth il will pass within half a degree of
the planet Mars. Mercury shines with a
bright white light, as a star of the first
Venus is now morning star. and it may be
seen rising at daybreak, almost directly
in the east. Only few weeks ago this
brilliant star graced the western sky at
dark, while now it appears ahead Of the
sun. The ancients could not understand
there were two stars instead Of one. They
called the evening star Hesperus and the
morning star Lucifer, For more than
5000 years these alterations OF Venus have
been observed and recorded.
Mars will be in conjunction with the sun
on the 18th, and hence it viii be invisible
Jupiter rises about midnight, about 20
degrees north of east, and is by far the
brightest of the morning stars. This in
teresting planet will soon be in favor
able position for observation when a
small telescope will reveal its moons and
belts.
Saturn and Uranus are both on the OPP
poste side of the sun from US and hence
invisible. Neptune rises about o'clock
in the constellation Taurus, near Aid
haram, the bright red star in the shap-
ed group of the Hyades. Neptune is
never visible to the naked eye.
In the NORTH Ursa Major is below and
TO the west of POlaris and Cassiopeia is
above and to the east. Nearly overhead
and little to the northwest is the bright
blue star Vega in the constellation Lyra,
while near the horizon in the northwest
Arcturus shines with pale red light.
Near the zenith is Affair in the Eagle,
in a straight line between two other
smaller stars. Here the Galaxy or Milky
Way divides into two distinct streams Of
stars, which reunite near the horizon.
In the southwest, Autares in the Scor-
plon blazes with red light. In the
northeast, Perseus, with Algol is rising,
and later Arites, Capella, and Orion ap-
pear with their wealth of worlds. Above
anu ~ ttlC llitdSl VI tut 4NOIln star
about thirty degrees, is a group of bright
stars in the shape Of an inverted chair.
This is Cassiopiea. If a line be drawn from
the North Star through this group and
extended about twenty degrees, 1t will
locate the great Nebula of Andromeda
very near the upper end of line of three
faint stars. This wonderful nebula is
scarcely visible to the naked eye, but
within its narrow limits more than
fifteen hundred separate stars have been
counted, and 1t is probable that millions
of others still unresolved blend their deli
cate beams to form the pearly blush upon
our midnight sky. And yet, each one o.
these points Of light is a sun like our own,
probably surrounded by worlds which are
invested with an immense life. scarcely
guessed at by us. Otis Ashmore.