Salt Lake Tribune | 1894-11-10 | Page 3 | Will See Mercury in Transit

WILL SEE MERCURY 14 TRANSIT president e ident cleveland and others stargazing star gazing washington NOV 19 the transit of mercury will be observed by some distinguished persons persona at the N naval aval observatory here tomorrow to morrow at 1 15 a in m and 4 I 1 p m secretary herbert has invited president cleveland and mrs cleveland and all th the members 0 of the and their families to visit the observatory se r va to view tile the phenomena abs through the great vleit telescope the h e transit ls 11 scheduled to begin at five rill minutes and forty three seconds post past 11 a in and Is 13 due to end at twelve minutes and wen seven seconds past 4 in the afternoon one of the interesting features la Is that observers in the united states haveard have an excellent opportunity to settle conclusively whether mercury does docs or does rol roi possess a satellite it if there Js s one it hill III be apparent on the suns suna disk above or below or behind or in front of the planet