The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-07
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 November has feature that no other month can claim. During the month the | meteor zone, whose perihelion rests upon | that portion of the earth's orbit that l 1t travels about the middle of the month. The zone is an immense ellipse contain ing an innumerable number of meteors clustering around or following in the | track of the comet of 1866. now under going a process of disintegration, of | which the meteors are the results, so the | scientists tell us The meteors make revolution in about thirty-three years. The earth on ordinary years does not encounter the great shoal or swarm. but | every thirty-three years she passes | through the midst of 1t, and there is superb display of celestial fireworks. The meteors are spreading far and wide through the zone % or ring and in sne portion of it, when there will be larger | showers every year.
 The November meteors have history Romance of a Comet. In the year 126 of the Christian era a stray comet made a visit to the suns domain, coming from the infinite depths of space, and general habit of these cratic wanderers. It chanced to come too near to Uranus, | when the giant planet made it prisoner | by force of attraction, changed it's orbit
  tinued to wander within the limits of the solar system, and give a grand exhi- bition to terrestial observers about three | times in a century. When the long looked for shower. appears the heavens seem to be on fire with the brilliant | shooting stars that fall to the earth in countless millions. These tiny meteors are called Leonids because their radiant point is in the constellation Leo It is well to look for them about the 18th. for the earth captures every year few | T, easily known, for they move swiftly. | have a greenish or bluish tint, with vivid persistent trains
 November is a month of considerable | interest to star gazers. particularly 1T | one can reinforce the naked eye with an opera glass. At 10 D. m. at the be- ginning of the month and D.. m. at it's close some of the finest Of the con stellations are above the horizon, while over us and about us is host of smaller objects interesting to study. even with the unaided eye. In the East we find Orion rising, to take his place in the | barbaric prince decked with his Jewels Above him we find Aldebaran, flaming ruby red, a fire flash in the angry eyes of Taurus.
 Facing the north at the hour indicated we may see the Great Dipper, or, as our English cousins prefer to call it. the Flow, barely above the horizon, directly beneath the pole star. Above the pole ard nearly overhead is Cassiopeia The Lady in Her Chair" a constellation easy | to recognize from the W-shaped conf1g- uration of its five brighter stars. on our right midway between the horizon and the zenith Is bright Capella, with its diamond light, star of the hrst mag. nitude in the constellation. Auriga, ana on our left nearer the horizon is gentle Vega in her Tyre tones, also star or the first magnitude.
 Toward the south the lone star Fo- malbant, in the Southern Fish IS he the noTOir1 nh uNw west Is Altair in the Eagle, and to the right of this star. and at higher ele- vation is the splendid constellation Cyg- nus. the Swan sometimes called the Northern Cross. The great square of Pegasus Is nearly overhead, and from one corner a line of four stars, including the corner star, curves down toward Ca bella. The speed of the sun as 1t moves from us .perceptbly slackens in Novem- Der, there being but seven degrees In southerly declination for the month degrees. The rate of motion will con tinue to decrease until the time of the winter solstice is reached. when the speed is again accelerated. The decrease ,a is little more than an hour. being more in the morning than in the after noon. The day is now almost six hours shorter than 1t was at the summer sol stice, a fact that becomes far too ap- parent as the chilliness of evening over takes us at an earlier hour from week to week.
 On the 10th there is an eclipse of the sun. but we are not among the lucky ones. as it Is not visible to us The coniunctions between the moon and the planets begin on the 10th, when Mercury r 18th Uranus and Mars are in con1unc- ton with the moon, being followed the succeeding day by Mars. Venus has the 18th, Jupiter following some five hours later, and Saturn three hours after that. .,.,
 tiaI twinklers are in fairly close prox- limity Then. on the Eth, Neptune ends this pleasant series by being closer to the moon than the average for the month. while hardly sufficiently close to form an attractive picture. Mercury is in conjunction with the sun on the 4th, and becomes a morning star. On the loth the planet and moon are in conJuncuon' and on the 20th Mercury reaches the TUT thest western end of his swing Tor the year. ,-
 Two days after the new moon Uranus is in conjunction, which shoWs ond tne Lne days after the full of the moon Neptune and the moon are at their closest whicn tells us that the planet of the seas IS one of the few morning stars
 Mars is another evening star, and re- mains in that class until the new year comes. While this ruddy twinkler is not very prominent. just at present h mere he are WbnlttIul lHlISS will figure most conspicuously, ana TOT which all the world will be agog; ,u
 Saturn attains prominence bv belng Tn excellent company, as he is in conJunc- tion with both Venus and Jupiter thls month, The first event occurs on the iath hut will not be as striking as that on on" the @ 2Sth. when Saturn will seem t,o, to be almost touching Jupiter, as there VII be less than half a degree of clear space
 The great event for the month that promises more than usual interest IS IS the drawing together and septaratlng ,,1d or tta eAIn 1neetinq is not as close as the one above he % mentioned, the size and hrilliaIncy of these two beautiful heavenly DouIts lt $ render their movements nv wei1 1nnroecS merfa | watching, as they gradually aPPio"0l' and then as slowly separate
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