THE PLANETS IN OCTOBER. 79 
teresting sight in a telescope but it takes a good glass to 
reveal them. 
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus will be conspicuous objects 
in the evening sky for a few months and the observer will 
have an opportunity to watch their change of position with 
regard to the other stars, an observation which early led to 
their being christened planets, i. e., wanderers. Jupiter 
will move nearer and nearer to Saturn until they are in con¬ 
junction on November 27, being at that time less than half 
a degree apart, when Jupiter passes Saturn and continues 
his journey eastward gradually increasing the distance be¬ 
tween them. 
As mentioned above, Venus is increasing its elongation, 
and moves faster than Jupiter, so that it will overtake 
the latter, or in astromomical phrase, is in conjunction with 
the planet Jupiter on November 17, being distant from him 
only a little more than two degrees, and the latter is then 
so near to Saturn, that Venus is also in conjunction with 
Saturn on the very next day, the 18th. 
These three planets, in such close juxtaposition, form, 
perhaps, the most interesting celestial group of the year. 
It remains for the astrologers or the superstitious to warn 
people of the baneful or otherwise effects of this chance 
grouping of three planets, all pursuing an unswerving 
course around the sun in obedience to the grand law of at¬ 
traction of gravitation. 
