El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-28
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I ton along the banks of the canal vii
soon be in evidence.
| For the amateur astronomer it mai
] pc or interest to know that much car
! ne accom- liShed with two or three
I inch telescope, and according to Carrot
I p. SerTlss, Mars is superb object ever
/ with an opera glass The polar caps OF
! Mars may be seen with very moderate
/ powers. In fact, more depends on the
{ observer than on the instrument The
celebrated series of views made by
/ Beer and Nader were obtained b5
/ means of a four inch telescope which
I should be encouraging news to an OBJ
server with only small telescope al
his disposal.
November Meteors.
On or about November 10. meteoriC
showers are usual. They are character
. lied by four peculiaritles, which dis
tinguish them from ordinary shooting
stars. Firstly, they are more numerous.
and also larger and brighter. Secondly,
they are blush in color, move swiftly
and have long luminous trains. Third
w. they appear TO radiate from q com
non center-that is, were their paths
traced backward, they would meet in
the same part OF the heavens, within
the sickle shaped group Of stars in the
constell atlon Leo FOurthly, the great
est display is everywhere at nearly the
same time of night viz, from to 1
o'clock or about half way from mid
night 10 sunrise Observations, how
ever, usually begin shortly after the
constellation Leo rises in the north
eastern sky, after midnight
Three Comets In View.
during the past month we have been
specially favored with these interesting
Tisitors-tWO in the evening sky and
one in the morning The Brooks comet
mas been more clearly visible than
either of the others and this month win
have passed from the evening to the
morning sky, where fl viii continue in
view throughout November and pos
sloly December when Ii viii pass into
The southern hemisphere Prof. Bar
nard, of the Terke's Observatory. has
made a number Of splendid photographs
OF It, One Of the best of these was OBJ
tanned on September %, and then
showed tail IS, 00O 900 million miles
long ana the head was over 100000
miles In diameter. To the naked eve If
appeared IS a hay star and in an opera
glass or low power telescope its char
acler as a comet was plainly disCerni-
Die It's position in the morning sky on
october % is shown on the map.
On September % Prof Quenfsset of
JuTisy, France, discovered comet in
right ascension "A hours "a minutes 46
seconds, and north declination rs de-
grees 4 minutes II was moving south
west three degrees a day. It was visi-
bic in small telescope, below the bowl
Of the little dipper.
Visible in Morning SKY.
The Beljawskij comet, recently dis
morning sky in the eastern part
of the constellation Leo, early in
October, and for a few days was a
naked eye object of no little interest
but il was soon lost in the rays Of the
rising sun. The honor of its first dis
c0very in this country belongs TO VIII
liam ~ Hilton, an amateur astronomer
Of MonOngahela, Pa.
Comets shine by their own light and
they circle about the sun in various or
parabOlas and hyperb0Ias.
Some move from west to east and 9TH
srs from east to west The comets hav-
Ing eIliptical orbits return again to our
system, and their periods have been
those whose orbits are para
5Olic or hyperbOlic never return.
The Planets.
On November u Mars will be at its
nearest point to the earth at this op-
lOsiiOn-abOut so, 600, 600 miles distant
and on November a Mars viii be at OPP
position that is, the sun, earth and
Mars win be in a straight line. The
east distance that Mars attains from
he earth at its nearest opposition is
100000 miles and its greatest is So
200, 600 miles The points Of nearest
recur every Is years. The
last was in 1907. Mars viii rise in the