The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-03
The stars and Constellation.

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 The most conspicuous of the constel- lations visible in the southern part of the sky at this season is scorpio, whose long struggling array of stars is seen at no great elevation above the meridi- an. The brightest star Is Antares, of the first magnitude, a star remarkable for it's fiery red color, different from that of any other large star in the heavens. Possessors of telescopes of not less than four inches aperture may en- joy the spectacle of the companion of Antare, little star of a bright green color which is almost lost in the stronger rays of its great primary. The contrast of color is very striking and when well seen there is no more beau tiful double than Antares.
 Easf of Antares appears Sagittarius, now made more brilliant by the pres ence of Mars within it's borders. North of Scorpio and Sagittarius the observer will find the intermingled constella- tions of Ophiuchus and Serpens. Oh iuchus is represented in the old celes-
 tial charts as a tall powerful man grasping a writhing serpent in his hands. The reader may amuse himself | in attempting to see the forms of the man and the serpent traced out of the stars. The little group just under Coro- na, the Northern Crow, represents the | borders of Scorpio and Sagittarius the | broad stream of the Milky Way seems 1 to pour down from the heavens above and to disappear behind the horizon. Nowhere is the Milky Way more bril- 1 liant than is this part of it's course, It is very broad, with many branches and bays and in places 1t seems to gather in deep pools of sparkling light l An opera glass shows a few of the null titude of starr composing it, while a i telescope reveals them in wonderful masses, which have been aptly called "star clouds" Nowhere Is the observer more impressed with the glory of the starry Armament than here. Following up the course of the Milky Way from | Scorpio and Sagittarius we come upon the little constellation Aquila, easily recognized by three stars in a row, a bright one, Altair, in the center, and a fainter one on either side, Northeast of Aquila is Delphinus, the Dolphin. From this peculiar figure formed by it's prin- cipal stars this is often called "Job's Coffin."
 Still farther northward and lying ex- actly in the Milky Way appears Cyg- nus, whose chief stars mark out very distinctly, the figure of gigantic cross, often called the Northern Cross, !" The brightest star at the head of the cross, is Deneb, while the star at the foot of the cross Is Gamma Cygni or Albireo, one of the most exquisitely beautiful of the double stars. The larger star is white or golden white, and the smaller pure blue. The smallest tele- scope suffices to separate these stars and to show their contrasting colors, With an instrument of two or three inches aperture and a magnifying pow CT of 50 diameters they are beautifully shown. Their distance apart is rather more than thirty seconds of arc, l have even separated them with a very pow erful field-glass.
 In the western half of the sky the l observer will notice Virgo, Corvus, Leo, Coma Berenices, and the Great Dipper while Areturus, in Bootes gleams high overhead, west of the zenith. Running the eye eastward from Arcturus we come upon Corona, then the irregular square in Hercules, and then the bril- liant blue white Vega in the constella- ton Lyra, lying between Hercules and 1 tho Northern Cross
 There will be partial eclipse of the moon on the night of the 24th.