OBSERVATORY OF VASSAR COLLEGE.
The computations in the following notes are by students of Vassar College. Although merely approximate, they are sufficiently accurate to enable the ordinary observer to find the planets.
M. M.
POSITIONS OF PLANETS FOR JULY, 1880.
Mercury.
On July 1 Mercury sets a few minutes after 9 in the evening.
Mercury can be readily found, early in July, a few degrees south of the point of sunset; the planet moves rapidly southward, but can be followed, and may be seen as late as the 20th. On July 18 Mercury has nearly the declination of Regulus.
Venus.
Venus keeps nearly the path of the sun, setting after the sun late in July, but so nearly with it that the planet is not likely to be seen.