SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



239 



ASTRONOMY, 



jNDUCTED EV FRANK C. DENNETT. 



Sun 



Jan. 



Rises, 

 h.m. 



Jan. 

 Hoc* 2 . 



; ... - :i 

 Ruts. 



9-13 p.m. 



Sits, 

 h.m. 

 4.0 p.m 

 ... 4.13 

 ... 4-=9 

 Souths, 

 h.m. 



- p.m. .. 

 ... 3.10 a.m. .. 



Z3 ... -;:l.Dl. ... 0.23p.m. 



Jan. 



Vetcury. 



I'c ::.s 



Jupiter 



I ... 12 



I ... IZ 



- 



.. 0.43 p.m. 



.. 11. 13 a.m. 

 .. 10.30 



■■ 11-33 



.. 11.6 

 •• 5-49 

 .. 512 

 - 

 - 

 .. 8.34 

 .. 9.49 P m - 



Semi 

 Diameter, 



... 4" 7 

 ... 4' 



... 3" 



Position at Soon. 

 R.A. 



Dec. 

 ... 22= 54 f S. 

 ... 21- 36' 

 ... 19= 36' 



A seat Scon. 

 .1. !:.:::. 

 9 16 5 

 19 16 5 

 o 4 35 

 Position at Noon. 

 R.A. 



h.m. 



...1S.53 



...19.37 



...20.19 



Sets. 



h.m. 



. 3.S a.m. 

 ■ 9-37 

 . 5.0 p.m 



• 



... 5" o 

 ... 5" o 



... 2" O 

 ...17" I 



.. i-"7 

 - 



... r 2 

 ... 1" 3 

 ... 1" 3 



h.m. 



... 19.32 ... 



... l8.,i ... 



... 18.38 ... 



... 18.7 ... 



... 19.1 ... 



... 19.55 ... 



... 12.37 ... 



... 12-39 •■• 



... 12-40 ... 



... 16.29 ■•- 



... I6.I ... 



... 5-lS ... 



Dec. 



20= 5'S. 

 19' 44' 

 20° 59' 

 23= 29' S. 

 23° 8' 

 21= 37' 

 23- 56' S. 

 2 3 34' S. 



2= 44' 



2° 47' 

 20= 3'S. 



20° 27' S. 

 2I' J 43' N. 



Moon's Phases. 



h.m. h.m. 



Full ...Jan. B ... 0.24 a.m. 3 r ''J? r — J an -15 •■■ 5-44 P-m. 

 Sew 22 ... 7.25 a.m. 15/ Qr , 29 ... 2.33 p.m. 



In apogee. January 4th, at 3.54 p.m., distant 

 252,300 miles and in perigee on 20th, at 0.36 

 p.m., distant 224,700 miles 

 Conjunctions of Planets with the Moon : 



Jan. 



planet -° 5' N. 



., 5' 4°' N. 



-r 12' N. 



r,= ::' N. 

 42' S. 



,1 ppe.lt s. 

 8.27 p.m. 



158 a.m. 



from 

 Vertex. 



... 284 



... 2I2 J 



1S10 

 2690 



Jupiter 1 ... 5 p.m. .. 



7 



20 ... Nfercurvt ... 4 



2: Mai • ... 2 a.m. .. 



9 p.m. .. 



t Below English horizon. 



Occult at 1 



Uafi- ,:ppear:. 

 JaD. urn. Vertex. 



j p.m. ... 75° ■•• 



... UJ°... 



1.1 



■ 



—On January 7th thei 

 be a partial eclipse of the moon, wholly visible in 



lilting. The tu 

 tact with the penumbra occurs at j 11 p m., and 



the 

 the sh rty-two minutes after mid- 



night, ir and forty- 



he middle of the 

 , p m , when the magnitude 

 the moon'l diameter 

 :th the 

 will be I rth j.'jint 1 



ind the la I rth west. 



a January 22nd, 

 1 m., the 



path, ■ 



the coast, the Indian Ocean, India and Western 

 China. Sir J. N. Lockyer and party will be at 

 Viziadurg ; the British Astronomical Association 

 contingent, numbering twenty-six, will be in three 

 parts, at Masur, Buxar on the Ganges, and near 

 Pulgaon ; the Astronomer Royal and Professor 

 H. H. Turner will be at, or near, Sohagpur ; 

 Dr. Michie Smith, Director of the Government 

 Observatory, Madras, will be at Karad ; Dr. Cope- 

 land, Astronomer Royal for Scotland, will have 

 his 40-foot telescope at the termination of the 

 Satpura Hills, some fifty miles from Nagpur ; 

 Professor Naegamvala, of Poona Observatory, will 

 probably be near Karad ; and Mr. Newall and 

 Captain Hills, R.E., at Talni or Pulgaon. Rev. 

 J. M. Bacon will endeavour to photograph the 

 eclipse with a kinematograph, provided and adjusted 

 by Mr. J. Nevil Maskelyne, having a 3J-inch 

 object-glass of about two feet focus, and taking 

 five photos per second. America, France and 

 Japan are also sending expeditions. 



The Sun has continued very quiescent until the 

 end of the first week in December, when an 

 enormous group of spots came round the limb. 

 At 1 p.m., on 2nd January, the earth is at its 

 nearest to the sun. 



Mercury is in inferior conjunction on 6th, at 

 4 p.m., and at the same hour on 29th reaches its 

 greatest elongation, 25' 4' west. On this date it 

 rises one hour twenty-two minutes before the sun, 

 but the great south declination militates against 

 successful observation. 



Venus and Mars are too close to the sun for 

 observation. 



Jupiter rises about midnight on 1st, and nearly 

 two hours earlier at the end of the month, its 

 path lying to south-east of 7 Virginis. 



Saturn, about i a north of a Ophiuchi and 6° 

 north of Autares, early in the month travels 

 eastward, and may be observed before sunrise ; 

 also Uranus, just south-east of /3 Scorpii. 



Neptune is a little south-west of 114 Tauri, 

 5th-magnitude, in good position. 



Meteors maybe looked for specially on January 

 2nd, 21st and 31st 



Red Stars in position during January : 



R.A . 



h. m. 



o' Canls Majoris G.49 



B.75" 



Dec. 



24 2' S.± 



22 53' S. 



25' 31' S. 



27° 47' S. 



20° 0' S. ± 



.",' i.,' N. (- 



Magni- 

 tude. 



4'5 



6-5 



7 



3-5 



5 



5 



Ruddy. 

 Fiery red. 



Fine red 



Y.u- In colour (?) 



Ruddy. 



7-9 

 7.18 

 22 „ „ 6.58 



6.5.J 



<r Gcmlnorum... 7.28 



iets ,1 and />, 1897. — It appears that the 



recently discovered comet was really b, 1897, 



cornel being D " t's, first seen by Mr. Perrine 

 a I ime 28th. 



OCCULTATION 01 I 111 On November 7 jlh, 

 I 'r Scli'.rr, .-it Hamburg, and Professor Ilarzcr, al 



Kiel, both bservi 1 he planet did 



. i into full bi ' [htness, but 

 lall 1 dui tag one or two Beconds 



, h appears, en 1 1 . een by 



lc on thi moi ning 



i ■ before daj breal . to 



1 d !■ - and Gallo vo , Itandard." 



an observers wen 



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