A rare opportunity of seeing this planet with the naked eye will occur at the close of the present' month, when Mercury sets in the W. N. West from about 14 to 2 hours after the sun. On the 29th, it will be located 20 South of Aldebaran, with the Pleiades to the right.
Mercury is about 3,000 miles in diameter, and at a mean distance of 36,000,000 miles from the sun, around which it performs its synodic revolution in about 116. days.
The silvery brightness of the planet and its excessive sparkling baffle much tke untrained observer, but if he perseveres, he will be rewarded with a magnificent spectacle. When observed with a telescope, Mercury, at. its greatest. Eastern elongation, is like the moon in its first quarter.
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