Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Amusement, Music

    Believes the 'Astronomy of the Stage presents phenomena which would startle even the indefatigable astronomer' who sends such observations of the 'sky blue, milky way, or the electric currents' to The Times. Points out that the stars referred to in the title are not the 'additional planets' or the 'pretty little twinkling stars' that John C Adams keeps discovering, but the moon represented in the Royal Italian Opera's production of Gioacchino A Rossini's Guglielmo Tell. Observes that the moon's conduct 'was consistent with the rules of Astronomy'.