Show The Plnnets For February Mercury will be an evening star throughout the month I reaches its greatest eastern elongation on the 25th and for a few days about that time it may be looked for low in the west a half hour or so after sunset Venus shone with her greatest bril l liancy on the 10th of last month and since then has been rapidly drawing in towrd the On the 4th I sun of this month she will be but one hour to the I eastward of the sun and will be too low at sunset to be visible Her inferior I infer-ior conjunction with the sun occurs on the 15th After that date she will be a morning star eg Mars is now a morning star rising I at about 1 a m I Jupiter is still a splendid evening star remaining above the horizon until I after 1 p m On the 14th he will be in I I quadrature with the sun Saturn is an evening star rising now I at about 1 p m Uranus in the constellation con-stellation Virgo rises at about midnight mid-night Neptune is in Taurus abO tonE t-onE hour and twenty minutes In advance ad-vance of Jupiter but of course invisible invis-ible to the naked eye Washington Star > |