It is a matter for regret that Uranus does not come more easily within our view; for he is a very beautiful planet, pale green in color, and unlike any of the others in his aspect. There are, however, very few persons nowadays who can see him without the aid of at least a small glass, and to most of us he must ever remain a body with which we can have no personal acquaintance. None the less he must have an interest to us such as attaches always to anything so closely related to us, and sharing with us a common origin and a common destiny. To those who have unusually keen vision--or a small telescope--there will be much pleasure in viewing the planet. But even to those who have not these facilities for seeing, it ought to be interesting to know in what region of the skies this far-off member of our family dwells, what his wanderings are, and something of his personality and habits. It requires a few days more than eighty-four years for Uranus to make one revolution around the sun, so that he moves even more slowly than Saturn from one constellation to another; and if we could only see him more easily, he would be scarcely more difficult to keep track of than a fixed star. He remains in each constellation somewhere near seven years and his change of place in the skies amounts in one year to but little more than four degrees, which is less than the distance between the pointers. Since Uranus was discovered he has made one circuit of the skies, which he finished in 1865, and he is now (1912) more than half-way around on another. His position now is in Capricornus, nearly twenty degrees east of the “milk dipper” in Sagittarius, and for the next quarter of a century he can be seen by any who have eyes, or a glass, to accomplish this during the summer evenings. Each year he will be about seven degrees farther east. He is, however, still pretty far south of the equator, and not so easily seen as he will be when he reaches that part of the ecliptic which runs somewhat higher in the skies. Even an opera-glass will bring Uranus into the view of many persons. His path deviates very little from the line of the ecliptic--never quite so much as half a degree. The knowledge of this makes it less difficult to find him. The synodic period of Uranus is about three hundred and sixty-nine days, so that an opposition occurs about four or five days later each year. He was in opposition this year (1912) on July 24th. In 1913 an opposition will take place on July 29th, and in 1914 on August 2d, and oppositions will occur about four days later each year thereafter.