Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-12 | Page 8 | Star and Crescent Formation in Sky

I mm oo STAR AND CRESCENT FORMATION IN SKY l a brilliant astronomii I spectacle waR offered last night when in a1 cloudless sky the star Venus and tho rnoon wheeled their way In perfect i slar-and-crescent conjunction. The I phenomenon will be visible on subse- quent nights when the sky Is clear and I the moon young, and, will be repeated with a maximum brilliancy of the; star in the first part of the month of March, according to western aslrono- Venus and the moon were In such' conjunc tion When Constantinople first I 1 fell to the Turks, and so occasioned tbelr adoption of the qtar and ercs-cent ercs-cent as a national emblem, according! to astronomers- The conjunction i" IFH lslble every two years.