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Astronomy with an opera-glass: (1896)

Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851- [from old catalog] · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 109

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arance, hemust use a powerful telescope. But with a first-rate field-glass he can see it as a speck of light in the position shown inthe cut, where the large star is Zeta and the smaller ones arefaint stars, the relative position of which will enable the ob-server to find the nebula, if he keeps in… … 98 ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS. And now let us look at the Hyades, an assemblage of starsnot less beautiful than their more celebrated sisters the Ple-iades. The leader of the Hyadesis Aldebaran, or Alpha Tauri, andhis followers are worthy of theirleader. The inexperienced ob-server is certain to…

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