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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



ation east of the sun in the latter 

 part of May, when it may be well 

 seen. 



Uranus is a morning star, and con- 

 sequently unobservable, while Neptune, 

 although an evening star, in Gemini, 

 is only a telescopic object at the best. 



It remains to speak of Mars, which 

 rises soon after midnight on the 30th 

 of April, and which will become a 

 conspicuous evening star as the sum- 

 mer advances. Its opposition this 

 year, which occurs on Sept, 24th, will 

 be more important than that of 1907, 



the end of April, to take a glance at 

 .Mars, low in the east, and gleaming 

 with the peculiar ruddy light which 

 characterizes him, and which a few 

 months later will make him the cyno- 

 sure of all eyes. Such studies of the 

 planets in their aspects as they ap- 

 proach or recede from, the earth, 

 are exceedingly instructive as well as 

 interesting. 



THE STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS. 

 At the hour represented in the 

 chart the great constellations of winter, 



Evening SkyMap for APRIL 



APRIL MOON PHASES 

 FULL Moon, April 5 

 LASTQ'tr., April 13. 

 NEWMoon, April 19 

 FIRST Q'tr,April27 





FACE SOUTH AND 

 HOLD THE MAP OVER 

 YOUR HEAD-THE TOP 

 NORTH. AND YOU WILLSEE 

 THE STARS ANDPLANET5 

 JUST AS THEY APPEAR 

 IN THE HEAVENS. 



SOUTH 



because the planet will not only be 

 nearer the earth, but will also be much 

 farther north in the sky, so that it can 

 be well seen from northern as well as 

 southern latitudes. About the 19th 

 of September it will be only about 36,- 

 000,000 miles from the earth. It will 

 be distinctly worth the while of any- 

 body who happens to be up in the 

 ^mall hours of the morning, toward 



under the captainship of Orion, are 

 seen as it were in flight, and just about 

 to sink behind the western horizon. 

 Their line stretches from Argo Navis, 

 in the south-west around through the 

 east to Cassiopeia, far in the north- 

 west. And behind them, from one end. 

 of the vast column to the other, hangs, 

 like a cloud of sunlit dust above the 

 retreating host, the gauzy scarf of the 



