The Heavens in March. 



By Professor Eric Doolittle of the University of Pennsylvania. 



THE most interesting arrival in our 

 evening - heavens is the beautiful 

 planet Mars which in these early 

 March evenings is seen shining with its 

 reddish light nearly as high above the 

 horizon in the east as is the bright gold- 

 en Jupiter in the west. As the one 



will not pass beyond the borders of our 

 evening map until May and in the 

 meantime Mars will continually mount 

 higher and shine out more conspicu- 

 ously in the evening heavens. 



From the slow change of the face of 

 the skv it now results that the western 



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South 



Figurej. The Constellations at 9 P. M., March 1. (If facing south, hold the map upright. If facing 

 If facing west, hold West below. If facing north, hold the map inverted.) 



east, hold East be!o\ 



planet sets the other rises, and as the 

 weeks of the month go on the more 

 brilliant Jupiter will be found lower 

 and lower in the southwest, though it 



heavens are more brilliant than the 

 eastern. Almost all of the bright win- 

 ter groups are now past the meridian 

 and in the east there is just appearing 



