ASTRONOMICAL, NOTES.
Local students of astrononjy are just now paying a good deal of attention to the curious' Variable star Mira Cebi in the constellation Cetus ; (' f The Whale”). -It has a dark interval of 10 months, and then It suddenly brightens up, sometimes attaining bo the second magnitude, and gradually declines again until after shining for two months it once more roaches its dark interval and disappears from view- This recurrence of intervals .of brightness aud darkness invests it With groat interest. 4t the present time the star is at the fourth magnitude, having doo^n Q d from the third magnitude sin-o it was first seen in the first week of last month. 4-t 8 o’clock each night three stars may be discovered about one-third way up tho north?wostern sky aud parallel to the horizon- The one to the left is Mira. Underneath the centre star is another faint ono inclining to the loft. :Venus is now the morning star, and has been oven mistaken for the comob. On the morning of the 29th of this month there will bo ft partial eclipse of the moon. The middle of, tho oclipse will be reached at 7.15 a,in.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 2746, 18 February 1896, Page 2
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