Like Mars, this month will decrease somewhat in brilliancy, his diameter
diminishing in appearance from 41.6″ to 38″. On the 20th he will be
stationary. Up to that date he will have a retrograde motion amounting
to 34′ 5.85″; and from the 22nd to the end of the month a direct motion
of 13′ 37.9″. On the 1st, he rises at 1:48 in the afternoon; sets next
morning at 4:26; on the 15th, rises at 12:50 p. m., setting next morning
at 3:50, and on the 31st rises at 11:48 a. m., setting at 2:58 a. m.,
April 1st. On the 7th, at 8:16 p. m., is 5° 54′ north of the moon.