REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. _ 167 
Note on the Conjunction of Mars and Saturn, 
July rst, 1879. 
a By H. C. Russewt, B.A., F.R.A.S., Government Astronomer. 
yellow and the surface quite dull compared with ee 
e of colour was that of the solar spectrum, 
a and E, but entirely without brilliance, in fact very dull-looking. 
a 1 remarked that Mars seemed clear and brilliant, as if it 
had lost the hazy coating which was so troublesome at the last 
_ Pposition ; the dark markings even with a low power presented ® 
. : romised good 
Sra 8 Shes Vise 
-he colour seen upon Saturn was not the polar colouring s0 
but a tint over the 
es < able to me because, 
on viewed with the naked eye, Saturn has always seemed to 
poe €to be the same colour as Antares. 
E ut was unable to get any micrometer measures of the difference 
Es “arias between the limbs of the planets until 6h. 16m. 13s. 
wa when the difference measured 92”:23 ; nine other measures 
im 
ame 
a 
4 
4 
“of li ce between their centre: 957-03, and 
fines” as 78”-40 and of centres 91”:60 ; these are all a 
. an aps worth while here to record a few of the estimates 
= colour of Saturn when observed under favourable con- 
«AS. notices, June 8, 1832. Mr. Lawson observed an occulta- 
n of Saturn ‘by the moon on May Sth, 1852, with a 5ft. 
