Evening journal., 1902-01-02
STARS Oh 1'HR
PRBSBNT MONTH
Constellation Charms Of the
MidWiRter Skies
The Queen OF Love and Beauty Is
Now In Her Most Brilliant
Array

o. We sweet heavensl your silence
Is TO me
More than all music. With what
full delight
/ come down to my dwelling by the
sea.
And look from out the LATTICE on the
night
There the same glories burn serene
and bright.
AS in my boyhood; and IL l am old,
Are they not also? Thus. my spirit is
bold
To think perhaps, we are coeyal
Who
Can tell when first my faculty began
OF thought? Who knows but | was
there with you,
When FIRST your Makers mind celestial
spheres.
Contriyed your motion ere was a
man2
Else wherefore. do mine eyes thus iii
with tears.
AS l. Pleiadesl your beauty scan?"
II w. PARSONS.
Astral splendor oharacterizes the
January skies. Mldwinter, in our lati-
tude. may hint of terrestrial cherries
ness but the heavens glow with suns
of varied tint and exceeding brilliance.
/ Toward the close of the month the
early evening will display the greatest
of the stars. while at its beginning a
later hour will reward patient waiting
with the same attractive objects
AS soon as the twilight has disap-
Deared we shall do well to direct our
gaze toward the northwest. for some
Of the lavOrite consultations of sum
lmcr and autumn are steadily sinking
Ito the horizon. AT y. m. the Dolphin
! (Job's Coffin. the Eagle (Aquila) and
1.-THE Harp N.yra) are approaching the
locculting boundary of earth and sky.
while nearby. studded in the family
lucent background OF the Milky Way.
is The well known Northern Cross
in the Swan (Cygnus) A small
telescope will split the star. AlbireO,
lin the foot. and reveal its beautiful
lcomponents of gcAd and blue
A little diamond shaped group in
this quarter of the sky designates the
Dolphin. which possesses no brilliant
stars the most conspicuous part of the
Eagle is that marked by three stars in
line. of which the lustrous central one
lis Affair: and Vega. ever fascinating
lin silvery radiance, identifies the Harp,
: whose minor stars, in a pretty con-
Ifguration. seem somewhat like satel-
lites of that shining blue white sun.
E Also. west of the meridian. are two
, celebrated consultations. Andromeda
and Pegasus. the latter of which Is al.
lready midway to the horizon, ID.
l"Great Square hanging I'm imposing
. fashion on the vast blue iirmamenta
= wall Andromeda's famous nebuls
with a smaller one near IT'D may bC
easily detected on q moOnless night q
few degrees north Of Beta.
In the east the Crab (Cancer) Is ris
ing. with as yet but little to attrac-
attention CAMS Minor (the Little
F.; Dogl is also up, it's leader the ProcyOn
fixing it's location.
1 Along the ecliptic the TWINS (Gemi
NH are in full view with the Bul
q (Taurusl above. The Ram (Aries.
= reaches to the meridian the Fishe.
e (Pisces) are next beyond then th'
g Waterman (Aquarius), and hnaily tn'
D Goat (Capricornusl, now sinking il
J 1.-THE west. The most striking objects II
these star groups are the softly spark
ling Pleiades and the Y shaped Hyadel
in which latter Aldebaran. in the ey
of the Bull shines. AQuarius may b.
located by its "Y."
In the southeast Orion Is emblaz
5 oned on the dark blue sky. 1t is thl
' most majestic and impressive OF tn
L consultations. It's glittering belt-thl
e bands of theBook of Job-and pend
4 ant sword constitute an appropriate
accessory TO the splendid uniform out
lined by Betelguese and Bellatrix
Saiph and Rigel, with the penngona
r addition of a star in the mighty hun
a tiers cheek. It is a star spangle
z Shield that is interpOsed to repulse tn
n charging Bull, with star tipped horn
!. and Hyades bearing face, and the cen
q trial star in the sword is transforme
by the telescope into one of the mos
: notable celestial wonders, the "Grea
: Nebula in Orion" In marked contras
! with the giant hunter is the Har
= (Lepus) at his feet.
e In the south the sole constellatio
s that greets US between Aries and tn
+ horizon is the mammoth Whal
l(Cetus) Above the Ram. and nearl
in the zenith. are the Triangles.
the southwest is the Southern Els
It (Piscis Australis) with its rudd
leader. Fomalhaut.
= Two consultations in the northeas
are invested with considerable intere.
the Charioteer (Auriga) and Perseu
e In the former which is well above tn
IS horizon, Capella the goat star
r beams gloriously in rays of blende
red and yellow In the Perseus tt
variable Algol ceaselessly pursues h
"winking" course, with a regularity
II period determinable to the fraction
}, a second.
Nova Persel II. now Invisible excel
in the telescope. is the subject OF COZ
tinued scrutiny by astronomers. T.
L chos famous new star" in Cassiopei
y exceeded it in brilliance. but scienl
e did not then possess the means Of il
vestigating its eccentricities, and Il
present Nova in Perseus Is tru
worthy of the appellatiOn "phenOm