THE PLANETS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19971, 4 July 1930, Page 15

THE PLANETS.

tO .THE. EDITOB Of THB PBJBBS. ' Sir,— Having waited anxiously for the Astronomical iNotes for the month, I find them' too r far advanced to be of "much use-to me."ln having learnt the .names of many, of the constellations I had hoped rthat th,e planets would be named amongst them. ■ I particularly would like to know the name of.=the planet which shone with such'beauty very" near the new moon last Sunday, evening. I learn from the notes that. Venus' sets' in the evening, but, had it, a morning planet, being one that' closely follows the tin*, and course ,of *^ e BUn and changing from an evening to a morning planet in .the course, of 17 months, from which time, the Christmas of 1928, I had observed it,as an evening planet—or thought I had. It would be-interesting to know where Saturn can be found. —Yours, etc., • ■ '.'.. STAB. July; 2nd, 1930. [The following information is supplied bv Mr E. (J. Hogg: "[The planet in question was Venus, which will continue to be visible in the western sky for several weeks. Saturn rises in the south-eastern sky about'4'p.m.;'it will be on the meridian and very high in the riky just before midnight'.]