Delaware gazette and state journal., 1899-11-09
THE SKIES IN NOVEMBER.


Baltimore Sun.
The phases OF the moon in course of
the month of November are MS follows:
New on the Sd, first quarter on the
Sth, full on the 18th and last quarter
on the 25th She will be in perieee
on the 18th and apogee on the oath.
While the sun is nearly II degrees 81
minutes south of the equator at the |
beginning of the month, he will be |
nearly q degrees 50 minutes south of |
it at the end, slowly approaching his |
southern-most limit, the winter solstice. /
Mercury will be in Scorpio the greater
portion of the month, but enter Sagit- I
tarius at its termination. Venus will !
be near her sbrother planet duling
the month, and like him be- in the
consultations Scorpio and Sagittarius.
As she will set early in the evening,
at about $50 o'clock. she may be
noticed for brief time close to the
western horizon, and then act as an
evening star. Still closer together will
be Mars and Venus, for some days not
farther than degrees distant from
each other. The close proximity OF the
brighter planets is on the who!e a rare
spectacle, but when il takes place
most interesting one, though for OBJ
servation both planets are not in
favorable position, setting early and
being close to the horizon at the time
of the evening when they come into
view. Jupiter is still in Libra, Dur
ing the first portion of the month this
planet may be seen close to the hori
zon, but on the 18th he will be in con-
junction with the sun, and soon after
that act in the capacity of a morning
star. The period of planets being
morning or evening star depends upon
its synodic revolution, and from this
it follows that from the 18th of the
q month Jupiter will be q morning star
for about 200 days. Saturn is in Ssgit-
tarius, and as 1t does not set until o
little after O'Clock IN the evening, and
the days are becoming rather short,
this planet can be seen for some time
before it sets.
A number of fine consultations will
he on the meridian about 8 o'clock in
the eyeEingstof November. From the
northeast corner of the Great Square
of Pegasus we see the conspicuous con.
Stellation, Andromeda spread out in q
northeasterly direction. The star mark
ing the corner of the square is Alpha
Andromede, or~Alpheratz (sometimes
lettered Delta Pegasi). 1t also marks
the head of Andromeda. Beta, or
Mirach, is in the belt, and Gamma, or
Almaach, in her left foot Following
the direction of this line of stars, and
bending little toward the east, we sec
that remarkable variable star, Beta
Persei, or Algol. This star, in con.
nection with Beta and Gamma ir
Andromeda and the Square of Pegasus,
really presents figure resembling il
contour the Dipper in the Great Bear
only on larger scale. Ii the handle
of this great Dipper is made straigh
instead Of being bent the star in thu
extremity is Alpha Peisei, the highes
in that constellation.
The student familiar with the at
traotiye legends of Grecian antiquit,
remembers the story of Andromeda, tn
daughter of King Gepheus and Queel
Cassiopeia, who, being chained to
3 rock TO wait for her destruction b.
the sea monster was rescued by til
& hero, Perseus. just as these four pei
sons are linked together in the legend
we also see them close together in tb
heavens. Cassiopeia is situated OH th
opposite side OF thr Pole star from th
Great Bear and at about the same dis
Iance. Its principal contiguration {
five stars is that of somewha
irregular W, and tiNe stars, beginnin
with the top OF the last stroke. ar
Beta, Alpha, Gamma, Delta an
Epsilon. Alpha is also called She'd
and Beta Caph, the latter being
special importance to the mariner an
surveyor. in that by its relative pC
sition to the pole star we can find o
which side of the true pole the po
star is at any time. The pole star
about II degrees on that side of til
true pole which is toward Carl
Cepheus, like Cassiopeia, one of Il
circumpolar consultations, is not di
tinguished by any bright star; b,
may be recognized by five of it's sta
forming a somewhat distorted X, IL
stars at the top of the first stroll
the middle, Beta, or Alphirk, and tn
at the bottom of the last strok
Gamma, or Ell Raj.
South of Beta Andromede lies Il
twelfth, or, in certain sense, Il
first constellation OF the zodiac, Pisce
or the Fishes, which, at present,
consequence Of the procession of t
equinoxes, occupies the sign of Aris
There is not single star in it th
can be called conspicuous, but it
rotable by its containing the Verr
Equinox, the Greenwich of t
heavens, from which the rig
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reckoned and where the sun is at |
beginning of the season of spring. I
position of the vernal equinox is il
part of the constellation that is p
ticularly starless. The constellati
consists CT Two Fishes. the northe
most Of which is wholly inoonspicuo
while the southernmost may be rec,
nized by pentagon of small st
lying below Alpha and Gamma Pega
The Two Fishes are tied together b
'.ribbon'' Of little stars. the k
being marked by Alpha Piscium,
El Risha, a pretty double star. Sol
OF Pisces is situated the large cons
ation of the sea monster, Cetus, to
described in our next article. Capl
is climbing uP in the northeast, wi
on the opposite side of the sky Vegi
low down in the southwest
The fine Writer consultations, Taur
with the cluster of the Pleiades
Hyades, Gemini, CAMS Minor,
the glorious Orion, have risen and
slowly climbing up, the harblnge
the rapidly approaching season
winter.
Activity in Building.
Building Inspector Cassidy is
lighted with the building actiyit
the past few months. Nearly all of
lnroa manufacturing establiShm,