The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1904-04-28
BEAUTY OF THE MOON.
WHAT is DISCLOSED BY A POWER.
Full TELESCOPE.


Forms-The Shape 10 a Beautiful
sphericd-What is the Secret Of the
Moons Volcanoes?
Pleasures OF the Telescope" was IT,
title Of q most interesting and instruc-
tive paper, prepared and read by DR..
Albert ID Watson before the Toronto
Astronomical society at it's last meet
Ing. Excerpts from the paper are CIV
en- below;
Notwithstanding the facilities that
the telescope affords for seeing distant
objects, II is still true that OF celestial
bodies the less distant are often the
more interesting, At any rate, in any
rapid review Of the hosts that ride
within the zodiac, ard deck with uneX-
ampled beauty and endless reach Of
sky, the record must contain some ac-
count of our own beautiful comrade
in the heavens-the moon, the time
measurer of the east, the great rehec-
tor Of the solar splendor.
I'm lunar research the telescope is
OF the utmost importance. What APP
pears to be unaided vision as pale
disc, constantly varying its faces, and
partly dimmed with great shadows, be-
comes, when seen through the tel
escope, a world Of wonderful interest,
whose luminous mountains stand in
clear, almost startling outline Of rings
and chains and beads cleaning and
sparkling like frosty diamonds upon
a snowy globe, or, still more beautiful,
shining out bright and dazzling against
the unilluminated portion Of the
moons surface.
what fantastic forms the Alps and
Apprentices Of the moon and the lunar
crater vast, steep and SCARED with
volcanic power, fling ont into clear re-
lief beyond the edge of the termnator
Imagine the picture, even at the
earth's distance. a crater wall rising to
hight of 10000 to 1900 feet over
vast depression 80 miles in diameter,
in whose centre is a volcanic mountain
5000 or 60OO feet high Imagine white
rays striking out into all directions
for hundreds of miles from this CEN
tire and clasping in their arms a large
fraction Of the moons surface. Such
is Mount Tycho, that mountain within
a mountain, the bright particular
crater Of the moon. We look in vain
to the moon for examples Of, single
mountain peaks, rising precipitously,
one frowning bastion standing upon
another, as in many of the earth's
ranges. Here, instead, we see craters
and moving plains wide and deep,
yawning like monster worthless that
might once have been the abode of a
race entirely shut Off from communica-
tion with the other lunarians. Such
ring plains as Plato and Archimedes
present wide areas OF comparatively
level surface enclosed within high, jag
ged walls, extending in some places
far into the adjacent plains. Else
where Eratcsthenes, Ptolemy, Aristar-
chus and Copernicus present similar
walls, but within them are enclosed
smaller mountains or hills or craters,
pointing as it seems TO volcanic action.
"The form of the moon, which COM
monty seems to be fat, Is seen through
the telescope TO be that Of a beautiful
spherold. This curved surface is a
feature of charming beauty, even when
seen with a very low power. The more
the delighted observer is entranced by
the glory and beauty Of the surface Of
the moon which lies open to his vision
the more he regrets the impossibility
Of seeing the further hemisphere Ty-
cho has been described as the metro
politan crater of the moon, but how
do we know? What of the others that
we have never seen? What glories
may be concealed from us and revealed
in some degree to the possible former
inhabitants OF Mars? Or has some
terrestrial influence brought 1t to pass
that all the lunar craters lean to the
earthly side, and that on the further,
which, without intending to suggest
any unpleasant antithesis, we might
call the heavenly half Of the moon,
nothing is to be seen but one vast level
sea bottom, or perhaps a monster
mountain may stand sad, solemn and
silent in a Prometheus-like Punishment
from the brightness that the earth re-
fleets upon the moons earth-lit hemis-
phere?
Sunlight far surpasses the moon
light in power and usefulness, but what
could be more softly and beautifully
pleasant than the earth shine must be,
could emily some impossible inhabitant
of the moon bask in its silvery radl-