The Archive · 1940

CHINA'S SKIES FOR

Mercury at a stationary point, Venus at greatest brilliancy.

Venus in conjunction with Mooi

Mercury in conjunction with Moos!

5 am. V. 0. 5° S.

1 a.m. M. 29N.

10.—Mercui at greatest Elongation, 19°

15—Jupiter and Saturn in c junction, 9 pin. J. 12" N.

18—Mars in conjunction with the Star Regulus, R, O. 4^ N. 71 am. 25.—Saturn in "conjunction with Moon 0 am. S. O. 40° N.

—Jupiter in conjunction with Moon, 1am. J. 2° N.

27.—Saturn at a stationary point. 30—Venus in conjunction with Moon, 4 am. V. 2 N.

20.—Mars in conjunction with Sun Constellations at 9 p.m.

In the north, Draco and Ursa Minor are above Polaris, Cepheus is above and to the east, Cassiopeia east, and Ursa Major west. In the northeast Perseus is just rising, whill it, Andromeda and Pegasus ar up. Lyra is on the meridian n zenith, then Cygnus Dolphin eàs of, it just past the meridian are He criles and Ophiucus; thence west a Corona and Bootes, while in the northwest is Coma Berenices and Cor Caroli Along the Ecliptic, Pisces is rising, Aquarius is well up, Capricornus mid-Sagittarius reaches to the meri Scorpius is just past, Libra next, and' Virgo just touches the honzo The Milky Way crosses the sky from northeast to southwest; the Zodiacal Light may be seen nearly perpendicular it, when the Mooi is absent.

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