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MERCURY AND VENUS.—The planet Mercury is now an evening star, and will be favourably placed for observation until towards the end of June. The greatest elongation will occur on Jtime 4 at 13h., when the planet will transit about 1h. 42m. after the sun; the declination will then be nearly 25° north, and the apparent diameter a little over 8″. Jupiter will be in close proximity to Mercury during the present period of its visibility, so that observers not employing telescopes must be careful to discriminate between the two; at the elongation, Mercury will precede Jupiter by about 8m. in R.A., and will be about 1½ degrees farther north. The two planets will be in actual conjunction on June 8 at 4h., Mercury being o° 47' N. of Jupiter.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 52, 113–114 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052113a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/052113a0