Astronomy in a nutshell, the chief facts and principles explained in popular language for the general reader and for schools (1912)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929, Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 64
he celestial equator would cor-respond with the prime vertical, passingeast and west directly over your head, andall the stars would rise and set perpendicu-larly to the horizon, each describing a semi-circle in the sky in the course of twelvehours. During the other twelve hours, thesame stars… … Jupiter Photographed at the Lick Observatory.Observe on the left the Great Red Spot, which first appeared in 1878. After SHifting Observers Position 39 the celestial equator would describe semi-circles passing overhead. But all, no matterwhere situated, would describe their visiblecourses in the…
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