Mercury sets less than an hour after sunset in the first part of the month, and is not likely to be visible, but being at greatest elongation on the 25th, it is perhaps visible in the last Ways. Sets on Ist at 5.50 p.m. on 16th at 6.05 pam.; on 25th at 6.19 p.m.
Venus approaches very rapidly the Sun, and will be in interior conjunc-Won with it on the 20th and so invit sible, Sets on Ist at 6.18 p.m.; on 16th at 507 p.m.
Mars is a morning star moving in Vrigo, and rising south of east: on the 28th it will be in conjunction with Spica at about 3.3° north of the star. Magnitude 19. Rises on Ist at 239 am; on tht lóth at 323 am.
Jupiter will be in the south and southwest during the evening, setting more or less at midnight It passes from Capricornus into Aquarius at the end of the month. Sets on Ist at 0.30 am. on the l&h at 11.32 p.m.
Saturn begins to set before dawn. It moves retrograde in the constellation Pisces. Sets on Ist at 423 am; on the 16th at 320 a.m.
Uranus, retrograde in Aries, will still be visible the whole night; it sets on Ist at 656 a.m.; on 16th at 5.58 a.m.
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