A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 94
distance, while she isonly some 239,000 miles from us. . . . Travelling thus, as I have said, from west to east,her eastern limb is, of course, the leading one, or that which covers, hides, or occults objectslying in her path. From new moon to full moon this limb is unilluminated, and the effectof… … THE moon; region of sea of serenity and sea of showers From enlarged photograph taken with the 40-inch Telescope. Yerkes Observatory: see Objects, E. F. 7S. -g. So: 20. 21: 22, 23, 24, 2S, etc.. in Key-Maps, pp. 76, 74 79 8o a Bcoinner6 Star*Booh moon. After full moon, of course, the eastern limb…
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