Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Mars, Saturn and the Moon In Astral Phenomenon Tonight. [ARTICLE]

Mars, Saturn and the Moon In Astral Phenomenon Tonight.

A most interesting and beautiful astral < phenomenon will take place Wednesday and Thursday nights of this week. Mars and Saturn will be in conjunction Wednesday night, and the following night Mars, Saturn and the moon will be in conjunction. Mars apparently will pass very close to Saturn and, to the naked eye, Wednesday, it will appear as bright as a double star, since the distance between the two will be only twenty-one minutes of an arc, or about two-thirds the apparent width of the moon. Mars will pass north of Saturn and the moon will be on the left or east of the planets. It t will be close Wednesday, but Thursday the three will almost appear as one. Except for the moon the two planets will be the brightest objects in the sky Wednesday night. Mars is very bright now, almost as bright as Venus. Saturn also is bright, and the two together will form a sight well worth looking at. They will rise about 10 o’clock central time, and stay together ail night side by side. They will be very conspicuous. / A Classified Adv. will find it.