Astronomical Notes for July.
The Sun.— Solar spots in' great variety iuad ', form have appeared during the past month, in- t eluding several' large spots surrounded with facukeof great 'brightness. # The present year. ' is a supposed period of maxima for the, appear- ' ■ ance of 'jfchese peculiar phenomena, "~ ' ' , ' ' ■The . Mopn.-^-Full mopn, 4 days ' 5 hours" 9,minutes, J a.m. ; third quarter, 11 days 1 5 hours' 52 minutes, p.m. . IjTew moon, 18 days 9 hourd 1 '" a.m. j first quarter, 2E> days 6 hours 18 minute's! p.m. ' Is near' Mercury on the 16th, Venus and Saturn on the ,19th, Jupiter on, the 20th, and , Mars' on 'the 24th. ,, , Mercury in the constellation Pisces until the ' 25th,! when it enters the constellation Aries'; ia' ' ' a morning star during, 'the beginning of the ' month. , . ', , '■','.' ,i;' 1 '■'" , Venus is in the borders of the constellation '" Aries' about the sth, then ,enters the'copisrolla 1 - ' ' tion Taurus ;. an evening star,, and is near ( , Saturn'.on the 2oth. "' , , '), [j, '' y, Mars in the constellation Gemini ;' an .ev'eri-' ingistar. r - 1; . ' ,'•. ,• '' • , 1 ' .'!.*' ; Jupiter in the constellation Taurus j an even-, , ingstar. . '/ ;.' ", „ \\ [) [ L Saturn in, the constellation' Aries' ; an', even- 1 ing star, ','•',,.' . " "" ' ,"" '' ' , : ;" ; , aohsb' n;aohb. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 1585, 8 April 1882, Page 23
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194Astronomical Notes for July. Otago Witness, Issue 1585, 8 April 1882, Page 23
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