ASTRONOMICAL NOTES.
Reading edition
BY BERLIN H. WRIGHT.
Penn Yan, N. Y., Saturday, August 10, 1878.
The following calculations are adapted to the latitude of New York city, and are expressed in true or clock time, being for the date given in the caption when not otherwise stated.
PLANETS.
H.M.H.M.
Mercury sets8 03 eve. Saturn rises8 59 eve.
Venus rises2 42 mo. Saturn in meridian2 58 mo.
Jupiter in meridian10 52 eve. Neptune rises10 27 eve.
FIRST MAGNITUDE STARS
H.M.H.M.
Alpheratz rises6 54 eve. Regulus sets7 29 eve.
Algol (var.) rises8 34 eve. Spica sets9 24 eve.
7 stars (Pleiades) rise10 53 eve. Arcturus sets0 08 mo.
Aldebaran rises0 17 mo. Antares sets11 24 eve.
Capella rises9 40 eve. Vega in meridian9 15 eve.
Rigel Rises2 23 mo. Altair in meridian10 27 eve.
Betelgeuse rises2 08 mo. Deneb in meridian11 19 eve.
Sirius rises4 24 mo. Fomalhaut rises9 34 eve.
Procyon rises3 59 mo.