The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-31

The small constellation Corvus, the Crowd now entirely above the hor1- zon at the time of the map and seems to be sitting on the back of the water snake, Hydra, which stretches its long way across the Southern sky. Notice the brightest Of Hydra's stars, the red AIphard, which keeps it's solitary watch in region of sky devoid of other BrigElE stars. In 4lle. East the Virgin the consteIIati6n Virgo is standing upright on the horizon To the North we have now the entire group of Bootes, Serpens and Her. euIes, and still farther to the North of the latter, just sover. the horizon, is Vega the pride of the Northern celes- tiaI hemisphere.
 Neither Hercules snor eSerpens con taIns individual stars of particular prcfninences hut sin the former there is one of the most wohderf5lI star clus- ters of the entire heavens. Unfortun- ately for us it requires a telescope to see it and appreciate the irnmensity of the phenomenon here presented. The cluster is made up of great number ofstars, each one sun, and there are prpbably no less than 5O,000 of these suns here gathered into an area of sky no larger than that covered by a full moon One must not confuse such a cluster of fully grown suns with a ne- bl1Ias which is a mass of finely. divided particles sending out light containing g sometimes a gIobu1ara density which is perhaps the heginning of a sun Of star and a planetary system.
 Between the groups. of Hercules and Bootes notice the easily recognizable constellation of the Northern Grown, Corona Borea1is. The bright star Comma and the fainter stars stretch ing away to each side in a grand scin- tillating circle make a chapIet worthy indeed for any queen to wear. In mythology it represented the crown Of -Ariadne. the princess of Crete who was imprisoned in the labyrinth to be sacrificed to the nlinotaur
 NEWS OF THE PLANETS
 Venus is this month the most att tractfve of the celestial lamps, and it is, after the Sun and Moon, the bright est off all the heavenly objects On the 24th of this month it will attain what is called it's greatest elbngat1on East; 1t will be as far away in angu- lar, measure from the Sun as it can get and will be to the East of the sun For that reason Venus will be well up in the sky at sunset, and we are able to show it's location on the map; which is done for two dates, as it moves quite rapidly through the field of stars, acconpanyings the sun Cns3 ms yeaF1ye TouI10se OF Iklee heavens Venus is not now at it's bIighteSt but will be so in the coming month
 Mars and Saturn are also to be found along the ecliptic circle; the former between Leo and Cancer and the latter in the constellation Of Gem inf Between these two planets as shown on the map lies the outermost planet of the solar system and the last great planet to be discovered- TIaTa f arr is clear enough to see this planet it will be difficult to distinguish him from a star because the stellar magnf- tuee of this most distant planet is only IT. We know but little about Nep- tune Hex seems, Nike the Earth, to have only one satellite.
 THE DISCOVERY OF NEPTUNE
 The most remarkable thing about Neptane is the story of his discovery. TO the ancients he was entirely un- know on account of his dirdness. They knew only Mercury, Venus. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn Uranus was added to the list of the planets