AND Treasury of Facts, STATISTICAL, FINANCIAL, AND POLITICAL FOR THE YEAR 1880. EDITED BY AINSWORTH R. SPOFFORD, LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS. NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON. 1880. AY64 A 55 COPYRIGHT, 1879, BY THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY. THIRD ANNUAL PUBLICATION. THE AMERICAN ALMANAC AND TREASURY OF FACTS Is published in two editions: 1. Popular Edition, handsome paper cover. Price, 25 cents. 2. Library Edition, with 100 additional pages; elegantly bound in full scarlet Copies of the former issues, 1878 and 1879, may be had, bound, at $1.50 each AIMBOTLIAD PRESS OF S. W. GREEN'S SON, 74 Beekman St., NEW YORK. 19 years. The Lunar Cycle is 235 synodical revolutions of the moon = ECLIPSES FOR 1880. In the year 1880 there will be six eclipses, four of the sun, and two of the moon: 1. A total eclipse of the sun, January 11. Invisible at Washington and in the United States east of the Mississippi. Visible to the western quarter of North America, and total in parts of California, Nevada, and Utah. At Denver and Santa Fé begins at 4h. 1m. P.M. 2. A total eclipse of the moon, on the morning of June 22. Visible to western edge of North America. 3. An annular eclipse of the sun, July 7. Invisible in the United States. 4. Partial eclipse of the sun, December 1. Invisible in the United States. 5. A total eclipse of the moon, on the morning of December 16. Invisible in the eastern parts of the United States. In the region west of the Mississippi the moon will set in shadow about sunrise. 6. A partial eclipse of the sun, December 31. Partly visible at Washington and to the eastern portion of North America as far west as Illinois and Mississippi. Eclipse begins on the earth December 31, 6h. 53m. A.M., Washington mean time, in longitude 5° 22′ east from Washington, and in latitude 35° 30′ north. The sun will rise partially eclipsed, and the eclipse will end at the following places at the hours given, about five digits on the northern part of the sun being eclipsed: Boston, 9h. 9m. A.M.; New York, 8h. 50m.; Philadelphia, 8h. 41m.; Washington, 8h. 29m.; Charleston, 7h. 58m. Magnitude of greatest eclipse0.715 (sun's diameter=1). On March 17th, an occultation of Mars by the moon will occur, visible in the Eastern and Middle States, the immersion beginning at Washington at 6.22 P.M. and the emersion following at 7.38 P.M. MORNING STARS. VENUS from Jan. 1. to July 13. MARS, Oct. 25 to Dec. 31. JUPITER from March 15 to Oct. 7. MERCURY, Jan. 1 to Feb. 14; March 28 EVENING STARS. VENUS from July 13 to Dec. 31. JUPITER, Jan. 1 to March 15; Oct. 7 to SATURN from Jan. 1 to April 8; Oct. 18 MERCURY, Feb. 14 to March 28; June 1 to Aug. 5; Sept. 17 to Nov. 23, 220509 |