There will be no planets in the evening sky this month, with the exception of Neptune, which does not count for the amateur. Venus will be morning star, rising, at the beginning of the month, two or three hours before the sun, and arriving at her greatest brilliancy, though not at her greatest distance from the sun, on the 20th.

Mercury will be visible in the eastern sky about the 16th, in the morning, an hour or so before sunrise. And the astronomer who cannot get up in the early morning does not amount to much.

Jupiter and Saturn will also be visible in the morning during the month, but Mars is too near the sun, coming into conjunction with it on the 29th.

The moon will enter her last quarter on the 2d, is new on the 9th, comes to the first quarter on the 16th, and fulls on the 23d. She will be in conjunction with Saturn on the 5th, and with Jupiter on the 6th, passing about five or six degrees north of each of them. There will be no occultations of conspicuous stars this month.

The constellations for March will be nearly the same as for February ; at 8 p.m. of the 1st the Lion will have wholly risen into the eastern sky, of which he very appropriately occupies the lion's share. The Twins are directly overhead. Sirius has just passed the meridian, and Orion has moved round into the southwestern sky, where he stands nearly upright.

The Great Bear has risen in the northwestern sky to the level of the pole and, with the Lion, is the principal constellation of the eastern heavens.

Eight hours later, at 4 a.m., all is changed. The winter constellations are set: the Great Bear is a little to the west of the Zenith, and the other bright circumpolar groups are near or below the northern horizon ; but the Milky Way lies level across from north to southeast, with Cassiopea, Cepheus, Cygnus, Lyra, Aquila and Scorpio scattered along it,- all summer constellations. Above these are Hercules and Ophiuchus ; and Bootes, marked by its bright red star, Arcturus (the Bear's Tail), and the beautiful little broken oval of the Northern Crown, nearly overhead.

The two zodiacal constellations, Virgo and Libra, lie in the south, west of Scorpio, and the small quadrangle of the Crow is low in the south-west. Leo is near setting, and the Twins quite so. Capella, the bright white star of the northern winter sky, is just on the northwestern horizon.

Jupiter is just rising, and Saturn already risen, but in very bad position for observation.

Vega.