CELESTIAL CONJUNCTIONS.
MORNING AND EVENING STARS
The planet Venus, at present a very brilliant object in the north-east morning skies, will pass very closo to a fixed stax, Gamma Virginis, a bright member of the zodiacal constellation of tho Virgin. Tho planet will be nearest to the star tomorrow morning, when their apparent distance will be only 19 minutes of arc, or about two-tHirds of tho moon's apparent diameter. The two bodies should provo very prominent at daybreak on Tuesday morning. In tho evening skies at present two other bodies are in conjunction—Mercury and Mars. They can be seen any clear evening shortly after sunset like twin stars, setting together in tho west, Mercury is the brighter of tho two bodies, the red Mars being rather dimmed by its great distance from us at present, for although the two bodies appear so closo together in tho sky, actually Mercury is at about the sun's distance from us, while Mars is three times as far away.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20367, 23 September 1929, Page 10
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