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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 114

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e Atlas and Pleione. The latter—which is the uppermostone—is represented too large in the picture. It requires asharp eye to see Pleione without a glass, while Atlas is plain-ly visible to the unaided vision, and is always counted amongthe naked-eye Pleiades, although it does not bear the nameof… … The Pleiades. level with Alcyone, is Electra. Above, or to the north ofElectra, are twobright stars lyingin a line pointingtoward Alcyone;the upper one ofthese, or the onefarthest from Al-cyone, is Taygeta,and the other isMaia. Above Tay-geta and Maia, andforming a little tri-angle with them, isa…

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