Inside Out Library · Explore

Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 99

An illustration from Astronomy for amateurs, 1904, leaf 99
formsan agglomeration. Among this mass of star-groups, several thousandsof which are already known to us, we will select one ofthe most curious, the Cluster in Hercules, which can be 79 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS distinguished with the unaided eye, between the stars77 and ^ of that constellation. Many… … Fig. 22.—The Star-Cluster in the Centaur. Another of the most beautiful, on account of itsregularity, is that of the Centaur (Fig. 22). These groups often assume the most extraordinaryshapes in the telescope, such as crowns, fishes, crabs,open mouths, birds with outspread wings, etc. We must also…

Astronomy

Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Astronomy for amateurs

More like this