Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-06-09
The SKIES IN JUNE

June is ne month of light. Through
| out the month the sun rises and sets with
but little variation of time. Half-past
| four 1t rises. haf-paet seven It sets, CIV
| ing fifteen full hours Of sunshine. But
| In addition there are nearly two ana
II half hours of twilight. morning and
evening, 80 that little more than four
hours of the twenty -four are without d.
| rect or indirect rays of the sun. And
we have moonlight in those four hours
| during much OF the month, while
throughout we have the rich starlight of
| the Milky Way. which. when clouds do
not interfere, enables surrounding Oh
jects to be seen with an accuracy sur
prising to those who first put the matter
| to the test
well as we are circumstanced in the
| matter of light. those who live further
north have matters still better Those
who dwell on the Arctic Circle will. on
the night of June %, behold a sight
| worth long travel. At the hour of mid
night the sun will just touch the northern
horizon, flaming glorously red, while at
the same moment the big full moon will
| lift above the southern skyline. A few
minutes later the moon will sink back
|
will continue to mount upward in the
northeastern sky. The moon is above the
troplc OF Capricorn far to the south Of
the observer, while the sun is above the
tropic of Cancer. on the opposite side
| of the ear,h. TO the south the observer
looks across the temperate and torrd
zones and sees the southern full moon
To the north he looks over the pole
| a he On nth nd
OF the meridian directly opposite the one
on which he stands.
If lie could move forward with the
speed of light he would pass northward
to the pole. and then. without changing
his direction, cross the frigid and north
temperate zones and stop at the tropic
OF Cancer. with the sun shining directly
above his head. the whole journey bein;
made In about the thirticth part of one
second. Let him continue his progress
| to the southwark. The sun sinks lower
and lower In the north until at the Ant
arctic Circle it has reached the northern
horizon, while far to the south is tho
silver moon well up in the sky. Another
fight across the southern pole and he is
again on he side Of the earth from which
lie started and once more moving north
ward, having ut no time changed his
direction. Passing at the trouic of Cap-
ricorn, he sees the moon vertically above
| him. Flying onward over summer land,
| he comes to the place of his berinnire,
and looks backward at the moon or for-
| ward at the sun, each at the horizon's
| brim That both can be distinctive SEQ,
| is owing to the refraction of the atr7os-
phere. which. at the horizon. * abla IN
lift sun or moon by the extern, Of n ful1
| diameter.
| When the fun moon comes this month
| we will see it i'm almost precisalv tho
place which the sun occupies at the time
Of the winter solsti~e. This is bec,use
the sun. being at its furthest north. the
tull moon, directly opposite i'm practicable.
the same plane, must be AT its furthes,
south. II You are able to re,ne,nl,ar bo,,
| high the sun was at noon Won Will an
prcciate the great difference {, ,i,t,,,l.
| but the chances are that Won. r,cino,,,
on that point will he very v,yuc <,
| by remembering that It is as hiyh in tbc
daylit sky as the southern n7rt ~ .b,.
| constellation Hercules f. In tho el,,
above, you NAV have = ,-i,-id ..,,,rot
ton Of why the weather is warmer ,to,,
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| the fun moon at ,nidniobt n, Two 49,.
ing of the end Won can re,I,ya so,,,a
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