Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851- [from old catalog] · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 123
with the annual rising of the Nile, that itwas called the Nile-star. When it appeared in the morningsky, just before sunrise, the season of the overflowing of thegreat river was about to begin, and so the appearance of thisstar was regarded as foretelling the coming of the floods.The dog-days got… … 112 ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS. to perceive a number of faint stars, mere points by compari-son, in the immediate neighborhood of Sirius. There are many interesting ob-jects in the constella-tion. The star markedNu (y) in the map isreally triple, as thesmallest glass will show.Look next at the…
Astronomy
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