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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



The Heavens in July. 



BY PROFESSOR ERIC DOOLITTLE OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



The most striking astronomical event 

 of the present month will be the eclipse 

 of the beautiful full moon, which will 

 take place on the evening of Friday, 

 July 14, while the moon is passing the 

 meridian, high in the heavens. Two 



all. with the single exception of Mars, 

 disappeared from the evening sky. The 

 reader who has from time to time been ob- 

 serving the morning sky how'ever, knows 

 that for many weeks the beautiful Jupi- 

 ter has been shining brightly there, and 

 as the weeks of July go by he will see 

 the planet Venus steadily climb upward 

 in the dawn, where by the close of the 

 month it will be a no less brilliant object 



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Figure 1. The constellations at 9 P. M., July 1. (If facing south, hold the 

 map upright. If facing east, hold East below. If facing west, hold West below. 

 If facing north, hold the map inverted). 



weeks later there will occur the fourth 

 eclipse of the present year — an interest- 

 ing annular or ring, eclipse of the sun ; 

 but this will be wholly invisible from the 

 United States. As to the bright planets 

 which for so many months have made 

 our western heavens beautiful, they have 



in the morning than it has been for so 

 many weeks in the evening. 



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The July Stars. 



The slow, seasonal turning of the 

 sphere has now brought the brilliant sum- 

 mer group, Scorpio, exactly to the meri- 

 dian south, and has carried the very large 



