The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-12
THE OCTOBER HEAVENS
a Full Moon on the 8th - vor-.
and Mars Morning Stars.
(New York Times)

(NeW York TlmeS)
The crisp, clear October evenings will
be full of enjoyment for those Who To-.
to watch the movements of the ceIas,t.7
brotherhood, whose destiny is lirLras -,
that of the earth and whose light Corr
from the same source The Pleiades III,
most beautiful OF all the diarnor5 -
tiers, rise nearly in the east AITsbS S-Is-
the Red, shines below the PIeigfiss ~;
late in the night the glorious Orion grs 1lsl
ind Capella sparkling in the nortbsa,.y
with a brllliancy that makes him ~
most striking. object in that direction ms
The constellation northeast of en-.
is Perseus. This group NAV he 1865 tlS.5,l
niZed by a circlet Of three brieb. S+ So
and a few degrees east of these So =,
shines one OF the most wonderful ya-i
ableS IN the heavens 1t is Algol ana i
also sometimes called the Demon star ana n
me the w Inklng Eye Tor its changes have
been noticed from the earliest times
The full moon next following the har-
vest moon is called the hunters moon On
the Sth, the day OF the full moon ~
satellite is still at a point in the aCTf1+io
near enough to the sign Aries for her -
make a small angle with the easier
horizon when rising, though larger thsc
at the time of the harvest moon
As the harvest moon was supposed in
the days of old, TO be a special Inte--
position OF Providence to help the hus
bandmen in gathering in the fruits of fba
earth, so the hunters moon was cOrei5
cred as a special boon to the huntsmen
L L.
October moon rises for three CONSECUTIVE
evenings after the full with an average
difference of thirty-seven minutes
The sun rises now about 5.45 O.NcIOrL
and sets somewhere near $50 O'Clock
making the length OF the day fifteen 10
tweTfty minutes less than twelve hours
gone away from US ar a lively pace since
that merry month of June was here Men
tune is a morning star.
Mars is a morning star, and he re-
mains such until after the advent of the
New Year. Venus, queen of the morn
ing, shines radiantly in the eastern sllv
some three hours before the sun is up,
and although her size is perceptibly grow
ing less, she is st5n far and away the
most conspicuous of all the morning stars
She is now moving IN once again toward
the sun, but so slowly that she viii rise
two hours ahead Of the latter when the
present century yields to its successor
Jupiter has still some two months To
reign as a. dominant member OF the even
ing sky. He already feels himself drawn
toward the realms of Venus BY the all
powerful rays OF the sun. which IN No
vember will so completely engulf him
that we shall see him no more until ha
energies. greatly improved and FURNISHED
by the fiery ordeal through which he will
have passed On the 18th he Is Occulted
by the moon, but before that on the
18th, he Will have been in so close con-
junction with Uranus that We can form
a fairly clear idea to the location OF
the latter Possibly from these sur
rOundingS we may be able to identify
Uranus without the help of his bic
brother This meeting will take place ia
the constellation of the Scorpion.
Mercury and the 2-day-old moon are
in conjunction on the 18th. the planet
being two degrees south of the moon
About this time, for short while aftel
sunset, the bright-eyed can possibly make
out the planet some eleven degrees L
the left Of the sunset point Although
small, his steady light makes him easy
20 distinguish from the twinkIers tina
form his setting