| Show FOR r MARCH LAST QUARTER Wad QUART ER 21 a ac n c k b f i F t l le le lt 4 c e to A 4 CO a arl I e t 1 10 36 a L a i rl i e dk a 1 a I lS f o I 11 I r at S 4 1 1 fat act 4 t Q w e t A o M tr e N r NA NAr Airs dad r AND b N I HOLD MAP o c r YOUR HEAD THE TH TOP SEt Ic c og a a i q G DIPPER t JILL NORTH TA R t ETS e b POINTS THE THE STARS AND PLAN THE STAR JUST M AS THY THEY APPEAR HANDLE OF THE LITTLE iNTHE HEAVENS SOUTH I Is 1 first n Qt a 1 M t spring In the or ordinary alen oar dAl but bul by astronomical com the la last t 10 lIars I 3 s or of March to which C cons Ill When hen the sun suit north card ard CrOAt s the equator at Ute tIll nr post t point or of atlas Ades or the tho Vestal 1 on March 21 The on the tho nl au equinox I is IU indicated on n chart Ii ly the tho lI re 10 Rn and J tau Ih ver vernal 1 nal 19 t opposite It Itlo to lo It l and can bo be found funt fit an time h by Iho t who consult n a star tar and finder but it milt Ill nOt nl bo be on ho monthly charts I until tall all The asa division or of the ElSon is h d willi tho actual er I than Jg is that or of the HIe nl at The larger parr lurt ct C March MarchIs Is n Cl period of and real f pring weather dons oes not begin until hear or the close ot of the month Similarly hI fay the Jail full autumn Il until late Inte In the moult ot n f September A As In In as II glat co at 11 th the chart will show the tho evening this year elu roll only one conspicuous planet Jupiter Ju piter which Is IF situated III hl the western part of the Genital Gemini mitt considerably west of at the meridian at atthe atthe the hours for tor which the tho chart la b drawn Those hose hours ate J II r for forthe the March R 8 for forthe forth the th o and j for tor the tho Tito Tho n double 1 of o t th o caused b by the Iho earths rotation on Its axis luls and 10 rove mutton around the oln Was wal explained In Ill connection with the thc chart ter COl Feb ruin anti need not be lc repeated late help The tact fact may be recalled that two hourI If fir the daily westward II or of the heavens are 1110 lent lont to one month ot of the tho annual This as 15 a moments thought will show for tOl the fact that the same chart serves to picture tho appearance of the heavens at It 3 oat lit the of a I month un and I 1 Iut ut At the end endro ro see Ih limo great Ireat belts of and lh the transits amid of his a telescope is III rd Ii It need not mint he very CI ge One of or 01 tour four inches aperture HIM Dut t h o principal tl tema cic t s nto ma y by be e 1 with a nl fh or Il a good oo 1 pl I ticket k t t 01 the a o ot t Wimp VO poa such an 11 instrument it 11 be remarked that on larch 10 No 0 4 will bo be well ell out toward the Crest side trots Jupiter and rote It So o 5 I about halt bait as an till tar awn away on tho east cast clot 11 Both 11 con b be seen lIeen a six a 01 with a I 5 times On Ol the saute evening Nos 1 and will bp be dose together about half n 53 wn bu be No I A rate glass show how them both On th next March 11 No 00 f will stilt be bc wait out gut toward the Ule west with u ith JM 1 and l 4 between It and the Inu t No o A will again I bo seen elI ort hy by on HI el coat l side sILle tI as time Iho motions of the satellites are ra rapid time hour for their lb boul hI he noted viz about 10 P a m time line S 3 p 1 m mountain time and i 1 rn L 1 nettle tint o if I the observations ore nrc made an 1111 hour I curlier or an Ill hoar later latT the tho satellites will be seen n not tar fat train the points i Indicated Neptune N Whose who e IH b indicated Oil en thc tho chart Is far be beyond on the 1310 reach or ere observation md and Is not an interesting object in Itself when Seen with n II small telescope Mercury I is now lOW nn an evening miter ilar in III constellation th e cc but It Is 15 ton tOil close to 10 the sun to be well seen except at the ot of the mouth month when Ihen It ma he be detected lo low In the nest cst set pet petting ting ling about I out all an hour after tiler the sun Sat Saturn Saturn urn also I an evening star is If still sUIi closer l to time the sun sus and Saturn Is In conjunction with th time sun sunI I on the th and Mercury Is In conJ lne ton Ion wit with 11 the sun on ll tile Venus Jrr ani and Uranus are 1110 nil all amts Th The l o of the tho moot fro from III the I 51 durin during the first halt of the tho renders readers the Iho observation ot of the 1110 e those tv magnitude much easier and this Is also alKO a L favorable circumstance for Cor clewing I the he mil milky k way ua very bright all on 1 it deal clear nIght In Ir Irs s and amI Cassiopeia The moon u n Went Ih the cad 1 of the tho month will trill be situated In to o nil IJ 7 l Nl l CO a r lit H Orlon with ills hie rat great cortege mIt c II brit 11 Rant Is now noty rapidly da In the well crest Chia I is the In last t tI I lit iho gre or of I the hl appears In the Ilk sky Sirius too Is Cast Uw tho horizon loll m iu Il time t h Ito sparkles like a die diu diemond monti mond In the northwest t Is very el Irina ul at th the edge ge ot of the uy I tie trend ren J JI Jot I ot of Chu milky way ay thE left front Capella the 1110 eye lIS is ler led to while about t liS as much t farther on the Ito side sille of If Jupiter Wad t U no IlO south II h hit first star fIor In ht Cants Minor Br cluster ICI In III iti 11 n COd to the and well 11 h ut tit with an opera Illera glass Cancer is III the In tin hoa head l I or tile the lung cn hydra Jy nt who stream of III stuns Ellul nuts off Ift to the tho cash eastern Ill horizon only the lane one AL AI attracting ot of C art ret an and 1 just JIt s 1 n tile the r cl Is I the tho star of leo Ih the figure ot of the sick I marked b by the tho thc live stars slurs It East Of Leo appears Irgo her f fitCH sl fit till the beautiful Spica with a a pure ray II a Ill tie lie above time eastern horizon As 01 the night advances all ull th the t c ter lr c westward and lInd slows I I with Whit Increasing splendor 1 as 9 It rises hIgher out of at tun mists South of oC at atline line drawn horn It to Spica will till ho be SC seen the Iho tw two small or of Crater and Corvus the tho luller crow COli on nn account of tILl the formed J tour our chief tall stars In time nOlIta t higher than Spica gleams limn Iho great actually llO or ft the thu largest t of nil all sous l hB hat In II a decided lc red lint nheu the thc horizon 1 ugh its iti color colen Codas It al It approaches H timid Above I us In flit of Leu 11 gilt teas the ot of Coma fabled 1 tl represent sent Sut the thc shorn lochs eC th the Queen l Just lj n flit ral ill fu Ih rho Is the 1 r of ellIa rota or tit th northern rl Illo ml r lIe nt II l hll h ia dipper tit lra v fair E n 1111 I II attract ec ct y lI tn amts l In III rho Iho bowl owl are 10 known a IS 9 the pointers bJ r E c ti V line K h th m r e d nearly hits hita the tho North Star r distance between the two tc stars ll y liS ae taut Is roughly aboul degree ho he taken its n II kind lit of urd f for r e eye meas n In ht the tho hensens rh dis hence Crum the nearest pointer to i the tho pole la II about 21 20 1 Ores OLer oti on t the other Il l f the Polo Pule Star Hint it to the great dt per amid III ht the j g northwest will ho bo s sea n till the beautiful a lasslo ln t five of whose iu stars farm un aul like the thel d m l letter V with 11 Its 1 toward th pole Possessors 0 oC IC small tele would a c tin well l Ile ml slat in t i r j je tilt 1111 or of the great dipper rill I e hoar II a celebrated J l double the finked eye a 3 slur lilaI very 1 clove It Wanted Alcor Hut But the telescope ope f will Hutt Itself is Iff double 1 n a el beautiful mil and to tono ono no who II never CT before t Bean a don doU blu star tl a sight rile to 0 stars co limo double al It even MI pout 1111 of l t colors tit l larger one being while anti s the Iii Clio dl Is shout 14 of Inc A thle telescope with a power of from 10 to will give nil at excellent slew fit It and Its 11 cel star of u uI 1 aery I l different class which may also b bith be 1 ith 1111 a telescope u us using ing hll Its ItJI hIghest power Is the Polo Slur tHeir itself has n II tI small dark companion tit III Il as G J 1 9 seconds uC HI arc Glum time to time WI wl shall describe Je Stilts stal taht be een with small R It 11 Is s in that h groat fro nt stats me or note nOI 1 and may be I tho th chart I t Aldebaran In I us It hr Leu 10 std Virgo Alt 11 lie near nestr the and lh they are very or useful t I who hI the uld of the i v y in III the limo can 1111 1 i front from tit th III l 1 III i lance front from th these l stars Iho i mean lute the it of and can n thus l d outer tel their longitude lit at see and Other athI sure 1110 I to fOI this purpose but the groat i i stars near neal the tho ecliptic being i alI 1111 are nr tin Iho h heat t fin fm th I u rho 1 rinse cluse will lie J hll In till contrast lit of colors I hy by th th t obo na n ulI j is reddish la Ir pal pain 9 anti Spica 1 is 1 saute white whit Thera differences of color UI turn believed to In 1 corr 0 of ago 3 III mitt stars nail 1111 red Ial c limo tho oldest anti tit th l hit c Oil Cites the he young 3 eat nL I |
