What was novel and interesting in my stellar prospect was, not merely that I could see those stars north and south which are never visible from the same point on Earth, except in the immediate neighbourhood of the Equator; but that, save on the small space concealed by the Earth's disc, I could, by moving from window to window, survey the entire heavens, looking at one minute upon the stars surrounding the vernal, and at another, by changing my position, upon those in the neighbourhood of the autumnal equinox.

By little more than a turn of my head I could see in one direction Polaris (_alpha_ Ursae Minoris) with the Great Bear, and in another the Southern Cross, the Ship, and the Centaur.
About 23h.30m., near the close of the first day, I again inspected the barycrite.

It showed 1/1100 of terrestrial gravity, an incredibly small change from the 1/800 recorded at 19h., since it implied a progress proportionate only to the square root of the difference.

The observation indicated, if the instrument could be trusted, an advance of only 18,000 miles.

It was impossible that the Astronaut had not by this time attained a very much greater speed than 4000 miles an hour, and a greater distance from the Earth than 33 terrestrial radii, or 132,000 miles.