The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-30

1 pie of this continent will have an op- portunity to see another partial eclipse of the Moon. Very fortunately this eclipse will take place at a more con- venient hour than the one of January l 19 and, furthermore, the amount of i, the Moons disk to be darkened will this time be much greater. The Moon will enter the penuInbra1 shadow about E18 minutes after nine o'clock the evening of the 14th; but this par tia1 shadow still contains a great deal of light no darkening of the Moons limb will be really perceptible until the Moon actually enters the completely dark shadow, which it will do about an hour later, at 10:19- The middle of. the eclipse will occur at 11:46, and the Moon will leave the shadow at 13 minutes past midnight.
 These are the circumstances of the eclipse in Eastern Standard time; those living in places using Central Standard time must simply look for these phe- nomena one hour earlier by their watches For example the middle of the eclipse will be at 10:46, instead. of 11:46. Further west in the area where Rocky Mountain time is used, the difference is two hours and Pacific ine three hours Eight-tenths of the .,ntire surface of the Moon willNbe rem Tered invisible during the height of the eclipse
 AnnuIar Eclipse of the Sun
 We are not to be so fortunate in sec ing the second eclipse of the Sun, since the area of visibility isi restricted to Australia. and the neighborins islands The date of the occurrence is July 2a The eclipse is called the annular, or ring-shaped eclipse, because at the height of the eclipse the Moon will ob- scure the center of the Sun only and leave a bright ring of the Suns disk visible all around the black circle of
 the Moon Physically this sort of an eclipse differs from total eclipse, like that of February of this year,
 only in the fact that the Moon is a
 little nearer the Sun this time so that
 the shadow cast by the Moons great
 opaque bulk does not quite reach the
 Earth If it did, the point at which it touched would have the Sun cut off
 entirely, and we would behold the the case of the annular eclipse the
 point of the cone-shaped shadow fin
 ishes off out in space Positions of t2re Planets.
 July enables us to place only one planet our nine o'clock star map
 Mars, which already is well down in the Western sky His bril1iancy is rapidly waning, as he is getting fur | l ther and further from the Earth Jul piter is established as morning star a position he will hold for several months Venus changes this monrn # from it's proud position of evening
 star to that of morning star and we
 miss this beautiful planet from ou1 4 evening sky
 The Stars
 In the southwest the great constel- N latfon of Sagittarius, the Archer, is beginning to push it's many brigh' stars above the horizon at the time o1
 our map. The ancient Greeks repre-
 sented this group a Centaur, witt
 the torso of man on the body of {
 horse in the act of shooting an arrow q at the Scorpionrs which precedes him
 in the sky. Even in the more an . cient astronomies this constellation 2 has been connected. in some way witt 'a the figure of an archer. In late Fl times the astro1ogers considered thi
 constellation, as a particularly forum
 ate one The Chinese astronomical
 records sh ow that about the year 1 O0
 a particularly. bright new star hashe
 out in this constellation. To-day ou
 interest in this group centers chief NJ in the fact that the Sun is in this con stellation at the time of8 the wfnte
 soIstice or rnid-winter, and that in thi group occur certain "holes' in tn
 Milky Way which are now thought t
 be perhap ps dark, nfe1ess, nebulou N bodies lying between. us and tn E Milky Way and obstructing our viev
 of the latter. No other rational ex
 planation has been offered for thes patches of the galaxy where no star
 seem to be-
 H Stars That Never Set.
 2 In constantly speaking of the risin, # and setting of the stars are like @ 1y to forget that there are certain star # in the heavens which because O. # their c1oseness to the celestial Nort1 # Pole, never rise or set, but are con
 tinuaI1y in the sky above the orizon
 obscured in the daytime only by tn K all powerful rays of the Suns light % It is not difficult to form a concep # ton of the reasons which under1ie thi # phenomenon. The cause of the gen # eraI rising and setting of the stars is
 as we we'll know the rotation of tn & Earth on it's polar axis once 8, day & This rotation produces an apparen @ rotation of the celestial sphere, caus # ing stars to be above our horizon a &i certain hours and below at others Now this rotation seems to take plac about an axle which is the line join