The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-08

''.'N'' ''' i'l''lNll 'NFll t'"''FN . tANANN detected says Wnslow Upton fin the Boston Transcript. In the telescope the planet shows It's ring system in- cilned to our line ot sight by about 6 degrees only
 The early morning sky is made beautiful by the presence of the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter. The former rises on the list at a 'ow minutes before ? o'clock, and the lat ter an hour later As the month ad- yances Venus rises later and Jupiter earlier SO that before the middle of the month they appear at the same time on the 18th they are nearest together. Venus oH that morning be- ing less than a degree south of Jupi- ter. The contrast in brightness Is cvi- dent for while Venus has grown ap- praciahly f1tnter 'n the past six weeks jt is much brighter than its rival plan et The two brilliant plants, added to tho stars of the constellation Leo, with the bright groups of Gomint and Ori1n not far distant make picturesque sky picture. The moon passes through this region on the 20th and 2lst, Mercury may be seen, hut with dif acultN early in the month after sun set on the 9th fl seta at 6:o8 2. ,n. CT but 45 minutes after the sun, all though on this date 1t is at its graat- est apparent distance from the sun, more than 25 degrees. lt is ? degrees 1 farther south, and. therefore, sets earlier on that account It Is only about one-hnlf as bright as when l brightest Before the end of the month it passes between us and the sun, going south of the line ioiuing earth and sun and win rise earlier than tho sun for nearly two months Mare ia urfayorably placed for oh seryation rt rises on the first at 2iS a. m and on the 2tst at l;ti n, m + ls faint not brighter than the stars iu Virgo, among which it is journey ing, but distinguished from them by ts red color
 Uranus Is in tho constellation saglt toriua and may he found on the first in light ascension, IS hours 57 minutes, and decllnatlon s 23 degrees li min utes on tho sixth it Is 90 degrees east oS the sun, and sets nt io;3i ?, m.
 Neptune s in the opposite part of the heavens and may be found with tcle scope in right ascension : hours l3 min utcs and deglinatign N 2l degrees 36 minutes, which Is ln the constellation Grmiui on the 10th 1t is 87 degrees west Of the sun, rising at 10 70 D m. On the goth lt begins to retrograde or move westward among tho stars.
 Tho moon passes near Saturn on the Stb, Jupiter on the goth, Venus on the 2lst, Mars on the 23d Full moon comes on tho sth and Is that sometimes called the hunters moon, There are eight evenings after the full phase in which tho moon rises before midnight In the opposite month, April there ara buJ five Tho first half of the month will have maonllt evenings
 The cancellations visible in October evenings Include six of the z1diacaI belt; sagittarlus Capricornus Aquarl- us, from the southwest to the meridian, and Pisces Aries, Taurus, from the meridian 70 the east At the southwest ern end is thc MIR Dtpper Of the first named group and at Che eastern end l the PleIades and Hyades of the last named group North of tho first thlee and west of the meridian arc Ophiu- chus, serpons, Aqullla, Delphlnus, Cor ona Boreais, Hercules Tyra, Cygnus i Draco, ursa Major Ursa Minor. North of the last three and east of the mer- ] idian are Pegasus Andromeda, Perse | us, Aurlga, Cepheus, Cassiopela. Tn i tho southeast below the zodiac is Cetus
 Two astronomical events of tho last month deserve notice the discovery of comet and the visibility of certain ! sunspots The comet was discovered ai ! the Yerkes Observatory by photogra- 1 phy and proves 10 he an interesting l object. It must be quite a large one l for lt does not come as near the sun ! and earth aa many others which are 1 lesa brilliant, II is not visible 10 the naked eye, and in a visual telescope
 does not show peculiar structure, but
 the photographs already taken show at
 least two tails with irregular structure.
 It will be photographed at every oppor-
 tunity during it's period of visibility
 The orbit of the comet has been cal | culatcd. It is moving around the sun in the opposite direction to the earth
 fin a path whose Inclination Is forty
 degrees It is now approaching It's near.
 est point to the sun and passing by
 the earth, 1t is in the northern sky
 in the constellation Cepheus After
 passing around the sun in December
 and retreatlng Into space 1t will pass
 the earth once more, but will then be
 far in the south as seen from the
 earth.
 sun spots have been unexpectedly nut mcrous the past few weeks The time of maXimum Frequency was passed sev- ! erai years agO and we are now nearing
 seen, But recently there has been q | revival of the form of solar activity
 which Is revealed by sun spots A re-
 cent addition 10 our knowledge of these mysterious objects has been the detec-
 ton of vertical motion of the gases | which the. contain During the recent long continued spell of smoky haze
 which the widespraad forest fires have
 caused, |. has been easy to sea the sun
 spots with the eye, unprotected by
 ing the glare IL Is rather surprising
 that fhe primitive astronomers who
 were acute observers, did not discover
 the existence of sun spots before theS
 were revealed by GaIlIe2,s telescope
 IL la qutte possible tHat they dId though records so far as known, dS uut mention them
 \ puzzlj0g thing connected with tho appearance ot the spots Is th4t th1
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