Astronomical Department.

Computed and arranged expressly for this WORK, by SAMUEL H. WRIGHT, A. M., M. D., Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

ECLIPSES.

There will be four eclipses and a transit of Venus this year, as follows:
I. A Total Eclipse of the Sun, April 16. Invisible in North America.
II. A Partial Eclipse of the Moon, May 1. Invisible in the United States.
HI. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, October 10. Invisible in America. «*
IV. A Total Eclipse of the Moon, October 24, in the evening, and morning of the 25th. Visible
throughout America. See the following table:

V. A Transit of Venus over the Sun's disc, December 8. Invisible in America. Visible in Asia, Australia, East Indies, and part of Africa.

EVENING STARS.

Venus from February 23 to December 8.
Mars until July 5.

Jupiter until October 5.

Saturn until January 24, and after May 4.

PLACES OF THE PLANETS.

Jan. Feb. Mar. April May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.

Mercury, February 27, January 23, and October 21, setting then after the Sun; also April 18, August 16, and December 5, rising then before the Sun. Venus, November 2. Mars, not this year. Jupiter. March 17. Saturn, August 3.

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