The Heavens in May. 



By Professor Eric Doolittle o f the University of Pennsylvania. 



ALREADY the faint summer above the horizon in the southeast, 



groups of stars are taking pos- though more than half of its stars, 



session of the eastern heavens, among which is the fiery red Antares, 



while the first of the winter constella- have not yet entered the evening hea- 



tions have disappeared in the west. vens. 



The advancing border of the very Similarly, the great summer groups 



large constellation Virgo has passed or Serpens and Ophiuchus are but 



South 



Figure 1. The- Constellations at 9 P. M., May 1. (If facing south, hold the map upright. If facing 

 west, hold \\\st below. If facing east, hold East below. If facing north, In >ld the map inverted. 



the meridian in the south, closely fol- partly risen, while, on the contrary, 



lowed by the stars of Libra, while the very long and winding Water 



Scorpio, the most striking of all the Snake is now entirely above the 



summer constellations, is mounting ground, extending across the whole 



