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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 34

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or eastern part of the constel-lation, near the third-magnitude star Theta (0), and anotheron a line drawn from Capella to El JNath, but much nearerto Capella. Turn your glass upon these spots, and you willbe delighted by the beauty of the little stars to whose unitedrays they are due. El Nath has… … Map 4. With a powerful field-glass you may try a glimpse atthe rich star-clusters marked 38 M, 37 M, and 337. The mythology of Auriga is not clear, but the ancientsseem to have been of one mind in regarding the constella-tion as repre-senting the fig-ure of a mancarrying a goatand her twokids in…

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