Show AN EVENING WAL AND TAIK by frunk frank beckwith Beckwit li these nice itice evenings are nicer still if we observe tile wonders of nature visible to us let your renders readers take a walk with gene gardner and tile me and altogether we will look and talk engaging in ill tile the coll conversation as interesting bilings como collie up tip ashou As you all know gene well let him do tile alie first talking ile he and I 1 till and you of ct course urse are out walking these nice evenings say about ten p in and gene inquires what is that red star almost straight strai glit down south there just a little to tho the west bests that oue one gene is called ant area arcs which is is a compound Illi latin till word meaning like ares area mars was the roman god of war and his hid greek tinnie name was ares arcs lie wits was ruddy as the blood lie so often spilled aud and was always depicted d naming red like t the I 1 I 1 e lie he plied to the ramparts of the besieged town the planet so colored like idin him is ruddy mare and this red star you are looking at looks so inucci enuch like mars ares arcs in greek this star is called antares Antar eR or like mars it makes tile the heart of the scorpion which athena caus ed to naring from tile the earth when she stamped lier foot in impatience at orion and tile bug bit tile the hunter in ill the heel causing liis his death after which bogli orion and the theN scorpion corpion were transported to the heavens beavens to attest tife the truth of this story so any ally time tillie you doubt it tg gene just take a walk an all august evening and theres the proof right before you but where is ib orion it bo be it a bit iii aibe e to put side by side the man inan ahn t W was as killed and tile the tiling thing that killed stilled liim halil so yousef you sert tile god s were so no considerate of the feel lugs of orion that they put igini in ill tile heavens as far away f from rom tile scorpion as possible you won t see orion until this midwinter thou then when I 1 paint him out to you I 1 will alst also show allow saturn right close eldont Ld ont 11 t make out abat you call tile the scorpion oil oh yes gene those dir three ee fairly bright stars on oil it a slant inake tile alio head somewhat like tile istead itt nil oil nil a shark then the red one antares is in tho place to ile be occupied by tile ji alea oart will curving anway aw ay 1 from thero hi 0 wig bi R wid grall gramt sweep tile staria mark maric alio beird ol of thi 0 o c body you know how low a crawfish or lobster looks with curved body and tail well tins this is very like to eith either er of them it is ipa a very largo large constellation and alil visible those these bummer it ib is one of tho the low groups garoupa not rising very high in ill th olt sky shy 11 ilow how does it look in the telescope in ili a dinall two inch glass even it lias has points of interest there is a twin oi or tw two stars very very close which the naked eye may possibly make out especially if you dont wear glas glasses glasic sc as I 1 do some cin can see this pair of 0 twins with tile the naked eye but 1 I cant then below them they tire aro the next stars up tip from froin the lower right hand one is tile ili dim anit anil hazy looking star you notice it is not one star but a small group or cluster lueter in tile telescope it is pretty and to think that in ill such a cluster no doubt there is it greater dist distance anee between any ally two of them than from froin us its to the sun still tile the group just below this cluster is a set of triplets three stars on it a common center of gravity a curious example of the law of gravitation eugene and I 1 are some gab bers we get Ht tit arted arent we ve well icca fun full looking at the stars till and to know eliat tile stielf same saine interest beld bield tile attention of men when egypt was as younger yo than delta what is that bright star pretty high up ill and nearly to to tile point straight strai glit above us ils inquired eugene a few minutes later that is arcturus Ac turus a big star said to be more than seventy ai live ve times greater in ill diameter 1 than our sun still and yet eugene so 0 very far away that it ib takes light nearly years to come front t rom it to us ila just think of liow flow far that must be when ahei it ib only billy takes light 8 minutes to come collie troll t rom tile the sun to be continued a |