Will be the morning star, rising at 9:45 p. m. on the 1st, and at 7:51
p. m. on the 31st. From the 1st to the 23d it will have a direct motion,
that is, a motion from west to east, of 11 minutes and 18 seconds of arc;
on the 23d, it will be stationary, and from the 23d till the end of the
year it will have a retrograde motion, that is, from east to west, of one
minute and forty-two seconds of arc. About nine o’clock on the evening of
the 18th, it is north of the moon 8° 18′.