| Show August Is Good Good Month To View VieT By Dr liE NEA Service This map shows s the constella tlona tione visible at 9 p m August 1 S 8 p m August 16 15 and 7 p In in August A gust 11 31 In latitude 35 degre s north As a change ch of a few tew d de- de degrees grees In latitude makes little dif dif- difference terence ference In the appearance of ot the heavens It Is practicable for tor any part of the United States or south south- southern ern Canada The map snap should be beheld beheld held Inverted or over oYer tho the head with lIh top toward the north At the times mentioned two qt pf othe the most brilliant of ot the zodiacal constellations Scorpio The Scorpion plon pion and Sagittarius The Archer are conspicuously la is view view In the southern sky MILK MILKY WAY WAr Scorpio In the tho southwest Is easI- easI easIly easi easl easily h ly Identified by the long curved line of ot bright elan stars extending to- to toward toward toward ward the southern horizon that outlines the tall of The ScorpIon while x the tits fiery red Antares Anar oa a star of the first magnitude lies Iles In to the creatures creature's heart Sagittarius Sag Is readily Identified by by the little mill milk Ilk ui south The Milky Way ts s particularly particular beautiful this month u as asIt It arches arch s shigh high etho heavens from Cas- Cas Cassiopeia Cas and Cepheus In the north north- northeast northeast northeast east through the Northern Cro Cross Cros In Cygnus where It divides sharp sharp- sharply ly Iy Into two branches One of t these passes through Aqulla Aquila and Sagittarius the other through meeting at the south southern ern horl horizon on In Scorpio METEORS FALL LL FALLIn In August the meteoric shower known n as The forms torms an Interesting display that Is to most In Intense In- In Intense tense about the twelfth of ot the month These meteors come from t o direction of ot the constellation Perseus hence their name of the They will be seen to the best advantage near midnight and several of ot them should be seen within the an nn hour Meteors or shooting stars as they are also erroneously calledare called are small dust particles weighing usually only a n few tew grain grains that are heated to In Incandescence by the friction produced by their pass pass- passage pass ago ago age through the earths earth's atmo atmo- atmosphere atmosphere atmosphere sphere They represent tho the de- de debris de debris bris of ot disintegrated comets Two planets are arc visible In the Iho evening sky at tho times for tor which the chart art Is prepared Jupiter In comet comes Into opposition with the sun sun- sun on the fifteenth and then rises In the southeast at sun sunset sun sun- sunset sunset set and remains visible throughout the night It Is by tar far the bright bright- brightest brightest brightest est stellar object In view SATURN S IS BRIGHT Saturn Is In Libra In the south south south- southwest southwest west It Is yellowish In color and Is considerably brighter than Antares on the southeast but Is Interior inferior In brightness to Arcturus In Bootes which Is now high Inthe In Inthe inthe the western sky Mars Is In Aries Arle and rises before In the northeast It Is more brilliant than the brightest stars of ot first magnitude mag with Ith the exception of and Sirius The planets Venus and Jupiter surpass It In brightness however Venus Is still a n fine tine MorningStar Morning MorningStar MorningStar Star Mercury will be In position for tor observation for tor a 0 week or so before and after the twenty fifth twenty just before sunrise In the east It ItI reaches Its greatest distance west ot of the sun aun on that date and will willbo willbe willbo I bo be found a few tew degrees to th the southeast of Venus Nd 1 la 1 6 l r rte b aa J 4 te b If y tt t 4 J v I Q t t 11 1 1 S v voh O OS ip t ti a w r rf f i u lacs Spin ro COn r i ir r- r ii Z P 0 0 I I r re e a e 1 t MAGNITUDE A 1 9 P M t Ii za zao o 3 AU 15 a 8 P PM M t 4 I |
