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Show SCEI JUST vf- i il SUfSL I BETWEEN 6:30 and 7:30 By Professor Eric Doolittle of the University of Pennsylvania 'ems. Jn a lelescopo of only one inch aperture It mav be seen to be made up of two yellow stars of cbout equal brightness, (-ry clo.'.e together The one greaf. .mn moves around th ether In a very ro ch flattened orlr. Constellation Taurus As shown in Fi?. 1, Its eastward motion Is now very rapid, but tho planet is growing lerceptlbly fainter, and Is now so tar rom the earth "hat li cannot be .-utis-lMorlly studied in the telescope. On I away fiom both the mm and earth, go ; that it soon became too faint to be f seen, except through large telescopes. Bs path among the stars during February Feb-ruary is shown at the right of Fig A. The comet is merely a vilur, which fell toward our sun from the depths of space, and It has, of course no connect Ion with Halley's Comet though It happened to appear nm very far from that body In the sky It is now rushing away from out sun and will not be seen by us .''.gain Halley's Comet. This most interesting and wonder ftil object i.i being kept under con s;ant observation ,U the great observatories. observ-atories. Toward the beginning ol the month its distance from the earth Is Increasing, but a.s It Is then approaching ap-proaching the sun with the enorrnoui veloelty of one million miles or hour, the dislurbanf.es, electrical nnc otherwise, which arc set up iu it by thai body, will cause it lo grow in ;:ch brighter. Its brightness will, in fact On the 21st of tbiri month, at 7 o'clock in the iiioi ning, the center ot the sun crossc:;lJi? celestial equator and spring will begin. In his slow eastward motion among ihe stars he Is drawing perceptibly nearer the winter branch of the Milky Way, with lis train cf very bright constellations, constel-lations, so that c find these m.ich lower In the ve-t than last month. But i' will be at least u month longer before the whole western sky ceases to be fllkd with the brilliant winter stars. Meanwhile tl-e Ylrgin.'ibe first of the long, faint summer groups, is jtibt irfginnir.g lo emerge from the ground In the oast, while north of ihis ve a-:an, welcome the Great Bootes, wish ibo red star Arcainu, ami the ber.itiful and delicate little Northern Crown l.i w very near the ground, but wlmh will shine ou: high overhead during the evenings of late summer. Orion is still brilliant in Ihe roulhwcM, the maenllicenl D0.7 Stars shine out In tbe south, and east of these th greater Water Snake, bearing Hie cup and the crown on LI s back, ha,s dragged half his length Into the evening sky. The March Stars. Probably ihe most striking change since last mou'li Is the disappearance disappear-ance of the . buaiif Ifnl planet Venus, which, aft'-r Mdniog out in the sonUi-wes'. sonUi-wes'. for many uior:lhs, bus now 11111 very rapbtly westward and entered j Fig. positions of Halley'. Cornel ; during March, at sunset. 1 SOUTH 1,0 p. 111 (If facing south, hold the map upright. If facing ea0t, bold oast below: ir faciu? west, bold west b-low. If facing north, liold the map in I verted.) as shown in Fig 2. the time o-cu;ded ( In one revolution beinr 101 years When close.t fcj'tlhcr the stars, ly iheir mutual attraoon, mut greatly , distort each othur'n form, ra'slug - enormous bodily t'des In one another, an-other, and tit th's lime we should ob-serie ob-serie grnt tl net nations In their light. Tbe nearest appj-oiich will not, however, how-ever, occur again mil 11 the year 2u3u, 1 at which time their liijhi will doubtless doubt-less be studied with great Intoiest. account of the rapid eastward motion Mars will not leave the eveuing sky until 3op'.cniiei 27. Mercury is .-: morning star this month, and too near the sun to be well ob. erved. The New Comet. Many readers doibtless saw tho brilliant In tic comet which unexpected!) unexpect-ed!) npoeared near ibe Hun toward the end of last January. When brightest bright-est It could best be seen low in the 'j'" I A I Sjfe w ' Fig. 2. The orbit cf the double star at C, Fife'- ! Fig. L Paths of the Sun and of Holla s Comet among t,0 ,staru Show-Ing, Show-Ing, also, tho path of tho new comet during February. Incu-ase nearly four tiinps during Jhc month, and were it not for its close n s.s 10 the sun it would undoubtedly be -onie- visible to the naked eye On March 23 the conu-l will pass east of the sun, not becoming again visible In ihe evening until it re-enters th.' evening sky on May 10. For a few days alter this date, however, it t expected to be most brilliant, with Us , brhhl bead pointing toward I ho groitpd In the west and Its tall extending ex-tending upward for many degrees among the stars. Probably It will then be Ihe most conspicuous object In the heavens and attract the a'.ten-l a'.ten-l Ion of ei cry one. l;lg. 1 shows the motions of lota the comet and the sun among the t.Uis during March, tr..t as the stari cannot be soon when so near the sun U will be of little use to the obserer. I'M,. 3 shows the directions and dl li ne vs .of the comet from the sun ju-t ;is t lie Mm ii sowing The'latet measures indicate l ha' the diameter of the romet Is no'.r lo.O'ifi miles, but It will expand greatly as it anpioaches the .-uin. It is no' farther from the sun than tho csrih Is. but the is' lrb.'inccs set "P 'n 'l even at Ibis distance have alrcrb' driven off pan of its material Into i Blender, rlraltht tall. On May 2 If ( will pass within lo.OOu.OOO miUs of : tho planet Venu3, and on May 15 equally m-nr the earth. On the for' iner date the comet will be 10 derrvi I north of Venus, and the two brlgtJ objects will form a most striking ?'c' ture in the morning sky. ERIC DOOLITTLE. the morning sky. Already it 13 far out from the sun. and may be seen In the soHithea.-t just before sunilse. It reaches iu greatest brilliancy on March is. and i- now as cum-picnous In th.- early mornin; as It was during dur-ing January n ihe evening. It will noi again bo ...-en in the evening until un-til ner.i November. " As Venus leav. s the evening sky the hemitifui pinnei Jupiter enters Ic find shines oat with Us steady, golden radiance Just about the east point of the horizon. At present IbU plauet is moving slowly westward, as shown lu Fig. 1; en Mar.h 1 It will be exactly ex-actly south of the star C, and both may bo seen together In the telescope By occasionally looking at the two objects for a few days before and utter ihU daie the motion of the grer.t, slowly moving world will be very clonrly seen. , , Tho atar nl C Is itself one of tho most rerutirknble 01 a'l btellar sjs- j It has recently been foand that each 1 of these suny la i.self 11 double sun, ! so that there are lour budles In this : wonderful cytor.i. j The Planets. 1 Tho planet Saturn 'way bo seen low j down In the west for nearly three : hours after sanso1, and. though not in tho mont favorable position Tor ob-' ob-' eeivntlon, it la still a beautiful object I in a small telescope. Mars has drawn ; far to the east of Saturn, and during j this month is moving through tho noinhwest just after sunset, Its bright jicad pointed toward the nm. while in the opposite direction there ex-tended ex-tended a narrow, straight tall, which afterwards became, double. From tho ,t'o ,"J?ush. mensu' It was . thought hat the visitor would move through leg.vus ai.J Andromeda and bccoui.i a conB;dei.oiu object, but more aeon ae-on ato obm-vo.lons ahowc-1 that IhU . wo-Id not occur, j. was foiinI ,,,lU te-, 88e(,,careit the uu on Je.auary 27. and was rapidly drawing |