Whatever each planet affords in the way of life and human interests, all of them must ever be to us the most interesting things in all nature, outside of our own earth, in the two regards already pointed out: first, as the most beautiful objects of vision among all the starry hosts, and, second, as our nearest kindred in this universe of suns and systems of worlds. Together the earth and they circle ceaselessly around and around the sun, following in nicely adjusted orbits that great luminary as it sweeps majestically on through space toward the beautiful Vega, itself a sun, and, so far as we now know, in this close companionship we shall continue until every planet and the sun itself has become cold and dark and lifeless. And then, perhaps, or even before the light of our system is finally extinguished, we may meet another wandering sun, and in the marriage of the two great bodies another system of worlds may be evolved of which we and the planets shall form a part. SYMBOLS USED IN ALMANACS ☿ = Mercury. ⚫ = New Moon. ♀ = Venus. ☽ = First Quarter. ⊕ = Earth. ⚪ = Full Moon. ♂ = Mars. ☾ = Last Quarter. ♃ = Jupiter. ☉ = Sun. ♄ = Saturn. ☌ = Conjunction with the sun; or, in the case ♅ or ⛢ = Uranus. of two planets or a planet and the moon, ♆ = Neptune. near together. ☍ = Opposition. □ = Quadrature. Examples: ☌ ♂ ♀ = Mars and Venus near together. ☍ ♃ ☉ = Jupiter in opposition. ☌ ♃ ☉ = Jupiter in conjunction. ☌ ☿ ☉ Inf. = Mercury in inferior conjunction. ☌ ☿ ☉ Sup. = Mercury in superior conjunction. ☌ ♀ ☽ = Venus and Moon near together. INDEX Adams, 236–238. Alcor, star in Great Dipper, 105, 236. Aldebaran, first-magnitude star, 79–80, 153, 188, 210. Antares, star in Scorpio, 86, 153, 160, 187, 189, 209, 212. Aquarius, constellation of the zodiac, 76, 88–89, 91–92, 187, 212–213, 221, 242. Arcturus, 24, 84; color of, 102. Ariel, satellite of Uranus, 232–233. Aries, constellation of the zodiac, 76–78, 90–92, 212, 242. Asteroids, 244–257. Bee-hive, 82, 211–212. Bode’s law, 245–249. Boötes, star of first magnitude, 102. Callisto, satellite of Jupiter, 200, 205. Cancer, constellation of zodiac, 76, 82, 91–92, 188, 211–212. Capella, star of first magnitude, 191. Capricornus, one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac, 76, 88–89, 91–92, 187, 212, 229. Cassiopeia, constellation, 77. Castor and Pollux, 81, 188, 211, 242–243. Ceres, first planetoid discovered, 251, 253. Constellations of the zodiac, 75–92. Deimos, satellite of Mars, 180–181. Dione, satellite of Saturn, 222.