The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-27

will emerge from its eclipse at mid night.
 Venus. which now shines low in the southwestern sky after sunset, will reach it's greatesct brilliance on October 23 and even at the beginning of the month it is no less than eight and one-half times as bright as Jupiter. But unfor- tunately, 1t Is running very rapidly south- ward throughout the entire month and finally reaches a position nearly B de- grees below the equator. Consequently 1t Is seen setting very far in the south west. and always remains very near the ground so that its extraordinary bright ness is hardly realized. Through the tell escope this world Is now seen as a beauti- fuI and rapidly narrowing crescent
 Mercury reaches its greatest distance east of the sun on October 15, and may be detected for a few days before and after this date low in the southwest just after sunset. This planet is however so far south of the equator that the present elongation Is not very favorable one. Saturn is in Gemni and just beyond the borders of our evening map, for on Octo- Der l 1t does not rise until s:3o o'clock By midnight, however, 1t is high in the heavens and throughout the remaining hours of the night 1t Is in excellent po- sition for observation.
 Mars is now lost in the suns rays and IL appears mucn 100 nearly in the same direction as that body, and if is much too far from the earth to be satisfactorily observed. It will not finally leave the evening sky and become a morning star until December 23.
 Uranus Is in the constellation Capri cornus, e little to the west of Jupiter This planet moves very slowly westward until October IS, on which date 1t be- comes stationary and then begins again tfSy cQc cf trro rd r,1n consequence of this, its position on the sky changes but very little throughout the entire month If the observer pos- sesses a telescope with circles or if, want ing this, he owns good star atlas. he may readily find this seldom seen planet between the dates of October 10 and g. Throughout this time the nearly station- sry planet is degrees S5 minutes exactly north of the star at D in Figure i He may, therefore, accurately mark its posi- ton in this atlas, or he may point his telescope first at the star and then care fully direct 1t exactly degrees 35 min utes farther north The planet when found will appear as a greensh star of the sixth magnitude, but it will shine with steadier radiance and with duller luster than a star It's obscure shadings and its four moons are only visible in the very largest telescopes.
 Neptune Is in the constellation Cancer.
 
 and is therefore not seen in the even- ing sky.
 On the early morning of October IS. ob- servers on the eastern and southern states may see the waning crescent moon passover the bright star Regulus. The star will disappear at the bright edge of the moon at about 3:3O a. m.. and will reappear from behind the bright edge about one hour later. On October N at p. m. the moon will similarly occult Venus, and on October 26 at D. m. 1t will pass over Jupiter. but neither of these occulations will be visible from the United States. On the evenings of these dates, however. the moon and the respec- tive planet will be seen to be very near together, forming a beautiful figure in the sky. The New Comet
 Tbe>knteresting new comet, which, it Is hoped wifi habecome visible to the naked eye, will foAeQw the path shown in Fig ure g. It is livery unfortunate that this path, as mayY Ybe seen from Figure I, re- mains always so very near the ground ofbseravtions thus far igdicate that the co net Is fully as bright 3s was