Will increase in brilliancy every day this month; but will not shine its
brightest till about the third of June. Its time for setting will be
as follows: On the 1st, 8:58 p. m.; on the 15th, at 9:28 p. m.; and on
the 31st, at 10:03 p. m. Its motion will be direct, and amount to 34°
34′ 37.35″. Its diameter will increase from 14.6″ at the beginning of
the month to 17.8″ on the 31st. On the 27th, at 9 p. m., it will be in
conjunction with and 3° 34′ north of Neptune.
Superior Planets.
Superior planets are those whose orbits are outside that of the earth,
and which are as a consequence, farther from the sun than the earth is.
So far as we now know, all the planets except Mercury and Venus, are in
the class “superior.” The first of these going outwardly from the sun is
called