The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-01
THE HEAVENS IN JULY
Scorpio the Most Beautiful of the Consteai0as That Form the Zodiac, Win Be Partcally Brilliant
 Skies are Clear This Month.

way between the horizon and the meri- dian. Lyra. with the beautiful star Vega. is near the meridian. and Cyg- nus and Aquiia high up east of the eQua- tor. Pegasus, with its large square. is rising in the east, and low down in the southeast we see Fomaihaut rising above the eastern horizon.
 Before the month of July closes we shall be painfully aware of the fact that the sun is moving south, for there will be three-quarters of an hour less day light than wex xnow have. so that we shall have to hurry to finish the last few holes on the golf links. the rubber game of tennis, or get our boat to the moorings before darkness catches us with lee tide and a head wind to beat up against However. we may find some compensation in the longer evenings and lovely moonlight which in the Summer seasons somehow seems more than ordi- narily attractive.
 In July this year we have live phases of the moon, one more than is ordinarily the case. They begin on the first day of the month with the phase of first quarter and end on the last day by re- beating this performance-no doubt by special request-though just how one can known only to our old friend tip aloft, to whom. by the way. at this season of the year many important secrets are confided.
 On the 9th Is the glorious full moon. followed on the 17th by last quarter ing. while July's own new moon does not come to us until the 24th. Mars be- gins the series of conjunctions in which the moon and planets are interested by being occulted by our satellite on the 1st. the two appearing as though they touched each other.
 On the 30th these two heavenly bodies will be again in conjunction. but this time with far greater space between them than on the first mentioned occas- ion.
 \ On the 9th Mars is in quadrature or half way between opposition and con- junction with the same.
 Uranus, having just been in opposition. now ranks as one of the evening stars, and is in conjunction with the moon on the 7th. being at that time about i've degrees to the southward. This planet has no other number assigned 1t in the program for July.
 Saturn is the most conspicuous actor on the boards just at, present. as he is in opposition on the 26th. rising just as the sun is setting, and giving us a look at his meIlow-ap appearing light when at it's greatest advantage. The planet and the two days after the full moon are in conjunction on the 18th. On the 18th Mercury and Neptune almost rub against one another. so close do they pass on their ways. the former toward conjunc- ton with the sun. which point he will reach on the 18th, and the latter on his way from a similar experience that oc- cured last month. They both are morn- ing stars.
 Jupiter is still morning star and is working toward the opposition point. where he will challenge Venus for the supremacy of the evening sky. Jupiter and the moon are at their closest for the month on the 18th. but the moon is rather too much for the planet. showing too bright a disk.
 Venus on the 9th reaches her furthest eastern point from the sun. and will then turn toward conjunction with that body, reaching that point in the middle of September, some five days after Jupi- ter puts in his claim as monarch of the evening twinkIers. At the time of her greatest elongation the planet will be in the constellation of the Lion. not far from Regulus, the brightest star of that group. and one that will serve to mark the planets movement to the west.