Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-11-08
THE NOVEMBER SKIES.
Movements of Planets during
The Month.
Venus Disappears from the Western
skies This MOnth.-Othcr Planets
And stars which Are Visible.

W" may see in tho northeastern sky the
asterism which. above all others, has
played fts part in human history, custom,
ana tradition, says the New York Globe.
This is the little group known as the
ilelades, In tho constellation Taurus. it
covers part Of tho sky somewhat grea-
ter than that occupied by the full moon,
ana consists OF six stars visible to or
binary eycsght II bears, however. and
mas done SO for ages. tho name OF the
seven Sisters. Plenty of people will tell
YOU, and with truth, that they see the
seventh star. but they are very likely to
disagree as to where It is located.
AS matter of fact. several additional
stars are lowering on the ragged edge Of
Visibility when the group is viewed by
the naked eye a good opera glass will
bring out about twenty stars, while the
telescope shows not less than 1000. It has
been satisfactorily proven that tho en-
tire group IS phYscically connected,
stupendous aggregation of suns. situated
at relatively close but actually at such
vast distances that ages are required for
their revolutions 40 doubt untold mil.
lions OF years have been occupied In their
making. but they are still young as
tronomiclllN speaking for the original
nobula ont Of which they were formed Is
stll plainly dsoernihle
Five thousand years ago our harharous
ancestors on the plains of western Asia.
being without any calendar, noted that
with the appearance Of this group in the
early evening sky autumn was at hand.
As the centuries went by the slow process
sion OF the equlnoxes caused the appear
lance of tn" Pleiades to fall later and
later, but the carly customs were carried
along with tho event. After the adoption
Of the calendar the customs were attached
to certain dates and the origin forgotten
One Of these customs was the convocation
of the tribal meeting. and the No"ernher
= ttc of our elections Is traced to that far
off recognition Of the beautiful little
group of stars shining in our skies to-
night.
Following the plelades at about an
hours distance is the sister group known
as the 1lyodos. They are large group
forming n N-sharcd figure and have at
the end Of one of The arms the red first
magnitude star Ndrh arau. The star next
Ald"barln IS naked-eyo double-that is
to say, an clear nights It can he recog-
nized as two stars very close together
Tho use Of the opera glass brings out
many unsupported stars in the group
producing very fine effect. Both the
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tho berdi,,c raw 3. porseus In tho famous
Icluster Of tho 'rttor constellation. To
tho naked c,, il arnoars as = r,hitish
ispot bu+ rho orar, glass cosiiv reveals
.it has = cluster NJ stars of startling
.brif-ttncs,. IN tn. Milky WAY past the
zenith is tho r-o,t ot,I,rn Of tho Northern
Cross # fs n ncI,ra of = Roman cross
formed Of six hr.rht stars. and is IN the
richest uortiton of the MILKY WAY. near
the Beginning Of the great rift. West o.
tho Milky WAY is the small hut beautiful
lconsteIlstion of tha T,vro. which is mark
ed by the brilliant white star Vega