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By JAMES STOKLEY MARS is drawing farther away and rapidly falling. Now Venus is increasingly prominent. It can be seen low in the southwest on February evenings until about houn after sunset . It is in the direction of the constellation of Aquarius, the water carrier. This, how- e,er, is a rather inconspicuous g1oup of stars that will be much harder to see than Venus itself. During February, Venus shioa with a brilliance about 20 rima that of a fint magnitude star, such as Pollux, ~n high inthe south in Gemini, the twin. Thus, there is no difficulty in locating Venus, if the: soulhwr:,tcrn sky is clear. is not shown on the accompanying as these depict the sky at il later hour: 10:00 p.m., your own standard time, at the first of Febru.ery, 9 :00 p.m., at the of the month and 8:00 pm. at the ap~ars on them, however, ~'~ it is in Taurus, the bull, high in the south west. It stands just to the leh of the little of fJintc:r stars called the Pleiadeoc. are sometimes called the "seven sis- ters," although it ukcs a keen eye to see more than six wirhout some sort of optical such as a tdcscope, or binoculars. the middle o F('bruary, will (,e ;1hmat 75% brighter th.m Pollux, but thi41 is less than one: tenth of what it was lasr when it ru.1Je m unusually do~ approach t' the earth. Sirius Is Brighter F.ven bri~thter, hu" en:r, is the stJr 'ailed Sirius. This is the "dog-~tar,' in Canis Major, the are:at dog, in the south. Directly thil group is the faint constellation of Monoceros, the unicorn. Canis Minor, lesser dog, is just above that; in it is :mother first-magnirude star, Procyon. Go- ing upwards anotht'r step, is Gemini, in \\hich PolluJC stands. Castor, the otht'r twin, is represented by the fainter star second magnitude) a little above :md to the ri<.:h f . T tunas. wh;~h h d prc:,C"nf lcx:arintt c,i M . rs, is shown high in the southwest. lt 1l'io contain" a -.ur of tlw firr.t m:-.ttnitmlc: . \ ldc:bar:m , tht> t'~c 11f th..: bull. r\hwe thi" is Auriga, the charioteer. C:tpclla is the name of its bright star. On the maps, .\uriga is divided~ p.1rt of it appe:1rs on the southern map ,lnd the rest, with Capella, >n the northt'rn. little fainter, which form Orion's belt. This feature makes it rather easy to identify. Leo, the lion, is high in the cast. In it is :mother bright star, Regulus. Left of Leo, is the well-known great dipper, which is p;~rt of Una Major, the great bear. Ursa Minor, the lesser bear, is still farther to the left, direcdy north. One member of this is Polaris, the pole star, which is overhead at the north pole of the earth. Although Venus and Mars are the only planets presently visible to the naked eye in the evening, two others appnr after mid- The first, rising in the east about 2:00 a.m., is Jupiter, in Scorpius, the scor- pil)n. \Vhile only about one-fifth as bright :1s \'tnm, it is many times brighter than any other pl:met, or any star. A few hours l.tr!r it is followed by Saturn, which is in S.t~iu.uius, the archer. This pl:met is now . b. 111t the same brightness :t'll Mars. Mcr- (111 v will not be visible at all during Fehru- ,., tur it is too ne:1rly in the same direc- t" '" " the sun. In fact, it pac;ses behind the :-~m un St. Valentine's day. The astronomer ''"' rhi41 .. superior conjunction." \\'ith rockets being fired at arth's one: natural satellite the moon-thJt body has hecn attracting a lot of auention in recent month~. In the p:tst, the moon h:.s been lfiiUI\11 largely neglcctt:d hy professional astrono- mers, whu have been more interested in studying the far more distant stars and galaxies. nut now, as the: time when men may actually be placed there draws closer, some large telescopes have been rurned on and new data are being collected. One of the most striking recent develup- mcnts has been the discovery, by a Russit1n :tstronomer, Dr. N. A. Kozyrcv of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, of appears to be an active \'Okano on He used a reftecting telescope, like tho.q: at Mt Wilson and Mt. Palomar in Cali- fornia. Unlike the more familiar reflector, where: a lens focuses the light rays from the distant object on a photogr:tphic film, or into an eyepiece through which the ob- server looks, this uses a di~he,] mirror to the same function. This mirror, at the Russian observ:1tory, is 50 inches in diameter, although only a quarter of the of the "big eye" at Palomar, the rge!lt in the world. A~ dc:scrihed recently in a Dritish w~kly, Tit~ Nrtv Sci~ntist, by Dr. Zdenek Kopal the Unht"rsity of ~bnchester, it wa5 in the early morning hours of Nov. 4, 1958, with the moon two days before the ph:1se of l:tst quarter, that Or. Kozyrev was suadying the region of the lun3r cr:n er Alphonsus. There is a prominent Orion. the \":lril r, rlu.: iiHht hrilli.Ult nr :111 the ron,td!.Jl l oJh, 'i h.cv~n T.turns J iHI C.!nas ~f:tjor. ft i" tile only star group to contain two first magnitude stars. One is Betelgeuse, abo\'e, and Rigel, below. Be- tween thC$C is a row of three stars, each a ~ * ~ SYMBOLS FOR STARS IN ORDER Of BRIGHTNESS pc;ak 80 miles wide in the center uf this drcular mountain. He: was w;ttching this intently to keep the telescope accurately pointed for 30 minutes, 'rorn 2.30 to 3:00, while he: made a specuOsc:opic exposure. The light from the region being e~amined passes through a narrow slit, then through a combination of lenses and prisms. The r~uh is a spectrum, which shows the dis- tribution of light of various wavelengths. Ordinarily, the light from the moon shows a spectrum similar to that of the light from the sun, and crossed by similar dark lines. The light of the moon is reflected as Dr. Kozyrev watched the central sx-~k of Alphonsus, he noticed that it be- came unaccountably blurred by some sort of reddish cloud. The spectroaram, when he developed the plate, was very different from what he expected. Instead of the series of well-defined lines, each due to some clement in the sun's atmoephere that appear, there was a series of bands, called Swan bands, that showed the pres- of carbon atoms, paired to form mole- cules. These do not appear in the sun. Another spectr~ram, made bctw~n 3:00 :md 3:30 a.m., showed only the customary It sms, accnrclinJt tu llr. Kopal, that these c:ubun nwlc.ulr.;, tlt.lt .tp(.eared so brieRy O\'Ct the central pr.tk, \~ere pro- in some w.ay "Y the ltreakllown of mere complicated mult'~oulro;. Tlti'i rN1uircs considerably more lu;ll tlt.m that of the sun's ray!'. There uu't lt.tve hc:cn some of heat nearby, l'rrh P under the: lunar surface, just hdurc the appearance of the cloud Dr. Kozyrev ~rved. Thi, of course, w.tlll very similar to a eruption on th~ earth, so it is the tint jCOOtl eviJ~nce thJt there is )()t'lle such on the moun. P..-rh:.(" it i~ not th~ completely dc:aJ wurltl th:1t many hJ\' C ;e,,mned it to be . Scienti)ts arc e;tgcrly awJiting the time "ith more anJ better rocket.,, they c.m male closeup ob~rvations. Then they find the answers to sume of their 'luotaons. Iaiiie for hltruary a 2:56 a.m. Algol (variable tar in l,cr~s) ;,at minimum bri1htnn,, 7 :Jl p.m. Moon paun Juritrr. 3 11 :45 p .m. Algol at minimum. 4 7 : I J a.m. Moon r :mn SaNrn. 6 l'-: ;5 p.m. .\lgol .H minimum. 13 midnight Algol at mintmum. on Ol'po~itc: si\ll" uf ~un from ~rth. l.f 9:00 J .m. Moon f.trthcllt, <.li:.tarh:c :!5 1 ,jUO 15 .!:Jo p.m. Moon in fir st quJrtc:r. !J 3 :5 J J m . Full Ulun. 2G 5 :ou .a.m. M()()n nc:arc:st, diitance 2:7 ,4uo ao:lo p.m. Algol :at minimum . Subuact one hour for CST, two hours for MST, and three for PST. Science New leHer, JoRUO'Y 24, lfB