Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-30

brighter than our own sun, and the
red Antares, that very old sun. have
both drawn very near the ground in
the west and will soon disappear. But
far in the northeast there reappears
the beautiful Capella, a sun almos:
exactly like our own except that it is
south we see the reddish Fomalhaut
or Royal Star, q most beautiful OBJ
tect, worshiped in the temple of
Eleusis and in later centuries looked
upon by astrologers as one of the most
favorable of all the stars. The for
mer sun will remain in our evening sky
until next June. but the latter Is so
Tar south that 1t will again disappear
toward the end of next November
Inc Norlhern Cross, with its beautiful
exactly overhead; below this are the
strange little group of the Dolphin, or
jobs Comm. and the Bright Eagle with
its blush star, Affair, at b. Still nearer
the ground we may now study the most
interesting group known as SagittarilIs,
or the Archer, whose flying arrow is far
higher in the sky at c. Just in the mid
die OF TINS constellation there now shines
out the Deautirul planet Jupiter: when We
again see this part of the sky in this
same position one year from the present
time we will find that the planet is no
longer IN Sag1ttartus. but that in it's slow
group Capricornus.
The five stars just below Jupiter form
the very perfect Milk Dipper; It is to the
right OF this, between the stars d and F.
black area. III which no stars are seen
this apparently being either tunnel
through the great cloud of stars which
ms TINS region or, more probably, all
Opaque cloud which lies In front of the
more distant Milky Way stars and hides
them from view.
The observer should not fail to examine
the wonderful clusters of stars at the
points marked II, nor the beautiful tribe
star at X. The two upper stars of the
Dolphin. marked L in Figure /. are also
beautiful double stars in a small tele-
scope. Just to the right Of the star M is
the remarkable Saturn Nebula, which re-
sembles the planet Saturn with its rings,
and which may be a system in process
of formation. and the beautiful Androm-
eda Nebula at N should also not he
overlooked. The first of these is a diff
cult object, however, unless the observer
possesses moderately large telescope
There will be two occultations of un-
usual interest during the present month.
though, unfortunately, neither can be OBJ
served to advantage except from a small
part of our country. The first Of these
will occur September 20 when our moon
will pass the Pleiades that bright dipper-
shaped group OF stars which on this date
will be seen rising in the northeast a few
minutes after o'clock in the evening
AS seen from Washington, the eastern
edge OF the moon will reach the brightest
star OF the group and hide it from view
at hours "a minutes. Eastern standard
time, the star emerging at the west edge
forty-seven minutes later. AS the group
will not have risen above the ground at
this first time, the disappearance will be
invisible: the emergence can. however.
be observed. though the moon and the
this time.
Observers in the New England states
can see the phenomenon to much better
advantage, but the times OF its occurrence