Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1916 — Moon Will Hide Planet Saturn From Sight Tonight. [ARTICLE]

Moon Will Hide Planet Saturn From Sight Tonight.

A brilliant spectacle of the heavens will be visible tonight, when the occulation of the planet Saturn takes This hiding of the ringed member of the solar system is described by Charels Nevers Holmes of Newton, Mass. • “Saturn is a mean distance of 793,000,000 miles away from us and our moon’s distance averages only 239,000 miles. This results in the planet being completely covered from our sight. Indeed, so comparatively small appears the planet Saturn that a little over an hour passes before it is seen again upon the other side of the moon, disappearing behind her eastern limb, which will be bright, and reappearing from behind her western limb, which will be darkened. With respect to this occulation, it should be stated that our moon is only one-forty-ninth as large as our earth, while Saturn is 760 times as large.”