| Show I EVENING SKY M FOR SEPTEMBER LPT TI PHASES NORTH N 0 R T N 2 TIO tJ NEW HEW MOON L 16 c 1 m St J a ay y a aC i O C lJ I fe 4 b LO LOI ro roI I I F II TH rz If r i U TA 1 ft d I Jj t lS 1 1 l n t 1 W iL A c t 0 j b k L u 0 I j t 3 T tJ b 4 0 leu tl t C oJ f 1 I t if r t 1 I j ij v J to tl I o 11 j 1 c r t r t I 1 I Jr Tt V a t 4 I 1 i iV V 4 e r it O 7 1 t 0 1 r I u t I 1 Y 1 Yo I t r I II I 1 I A Q j f c C e I t 2 i OUR TOP Two TAR I TIlE BOWl AND WILL SU E BW DIPPER POINT TO AND PLANETS a THE NORTH STAR AT JUSTUS A THEY THE I END OF HANDLE OF O g Tilt THE Th N THE HE NN LITTLE DIPPER SOUTH At sir nix p m rn on Sept 23 a 3 the MII till tilt tIre equator on it Its way south and end autumn with Ith It I its days dayn aJI will 11 be e Inaugurated On this date the sun rises rI cue tUe Ue east eist t and Fel ts due duel duew w weaL t l and day and night are art of ot equal length 11 12 32 hours over tUr the whole tole earth earthna The na sun IUn erse fI the Ihl equator In the thet t but actually JO xo degrees back III In tire the constellation Ir o Me lite trap map This difference ag as explained in the luth article li III I by b th the sun lUll crossing the equator So seconds further buck back ouch each year rear Two thousand years an ago ao the sadler divisions and Ind the Ibe constellation coin elded that tI t In l I b began gan at lit the Hrit point of 01 Aries rl degree one at which bleb point the sun ran then crossed th the equator in lii lh t the spring Hut nut the equator 60 0 M s ced back luick each e r has bas in the course coarse of i 2000 W year Ier the sun run to In tOSS at St a point 10 0 det r s beck back where hf It now nol crosses H in This change changeat at the spring equinox also alo aL o applies of ot cour cours course e to the autumn equinox The sun lIun then 2000 years year t ago Hgo 1100 crossed In Inthe Inthe Inthe the lAbia Ulbia but hut now no roes crow crowin ao as 8 in the th constellation Virgo Iro Astronomers always speak tk of or the th sun lun crossing cronin the equator at Itt the qui equi equinoxes foxes according to the old zodIac JOd III I si ar and arid I allow alio for foi the tM or of 30 degrees detree This Thin backward move moe I meat II la called and U is I I by b the th unequal attraction of the sun lun and the moon upon the earth earthal at al the th equator Cassiopeia ca a constellation r that pre preM p pent M ent nt a clearly defined W V Is II moving tip up from the vast east Into the evening ek sky k followed bv by II Andromeda antI and Aquarius sometimes fl called Jobs II Is a n pretty prett little group of stars iU just junt t north or nf which will wll 11 b h I found very er in interesting when viewed jt w through an en opera glee glass To thore tho who cannot annot af at afford atford f ford or who do not have hll e access accent to a ii 1 large telescope 65 0 the ht haInli at nn will vilI take on a Il new t charm harm when examined with Uh an opera glass Ius Try fry fr It on tire the moon some evening and you von Oll will be bp agree Iree agreeably ably abl or on the that wondrous cluster of stars The fact aft In is that Ihal a Ii low 10 rower I ower telescope say three to five Inch Inh object glass will af at afford atford ford rom more actual and Interest to the average man then than the high pow powen er en telescopes telescope which are re only Intended for Cor the professional astronomer Cygnus sometimes culled called the North Northern orth err ern Cross Croe Hercules Corona and an Aqulla of tIlE the are most clearly In lew In the evening enn this thu month Vega la ega the second brightest tar star In III the northern sky ah k gives times more light than our out sun lUll It II will willbe III be found in III Its zenith this month The Th changing is of oC the plan plait planets ets Ils te a all ga they move eastward on their neri teasing journey through the field of or fixed stars a n striking Illustration lion tion at this time litRe In Venus nul now so 10 flue fluer Jr I r in hi 1 in our western evening k This planet plant la Is M sa strikingly prominent In comparison with the tars stars that It is easily dIstinguIshed and Us its Il can t be cosily easily followed from night to tu tonIght tonight night It II cornea come into view 11 about bout z r J minutes after sunset and nd sets acts about S On Ott Sept I 4 It II will be bf five dt tie greeg grees east et of the firm first magnitude KUI Spice and on Hept 20 0 will rm hit reached its 1111 greatest elongation rM Cast N near the lowest Mar tar In the constella constellation lion tion see map Irish The Th planets and Saturn ai iti hUll evening stars Mercury Mercur ur Man Mais JRr Jupiter anti and Neptune are au morning star MUM IIII Mercury will 11 be found foun Ion how lo In the east about an hour before b fort sunrise and nei n ne nethe the tho point of if the suns lIun rising for tor or tb tho lira fIrst I 10 days of the month tar Mat m u 1 I Mercury will be very doe hr m i ithe I Ithe the morning of or the third only w s degrees Mars Mare can lan be he dist ii from Mercury because h of it II ruddy rudd color olor and Ind from the fact tint will be lit nearer the sun suit The Tho Milky Way WI Var that iou wonderful combination of nf M st world sends t that thaI to enfold oui U system like H It mighty belt hell is iK sweeping from the northeast t I n II southwest across the evening sk ak I one of the most uw sIghts In the heavens and arid to the n 1 powerful tele ope yields i lu t ting h hIng ing millions of or stars Clara on beyond LEON |
