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 31
n their way.In January, at the same hour, we shall find them, accordingly, too high overhead for con-venient observation; but by April 1st, we shall again find them conveniently placed forobservation at the northwest. As the stars make the complete circle of their apparentrevolution once in every… … LARGER STARS IN CLUSTER OF THE PLEIADES (For view at culminalion, the side to readers right should be held downward)From a photograph taken at the Yerkes Observatory prove a good beginning in astronomy and will do more to make clear the apparent motionof the stars than any amount of theoretic…
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