Astronomy with an opera-glass: a popular introduction to the study of the starry heavens with the simplest of optical instruments, with maps and directions to facilitate the recognition of the constellations and the principal stars visible to the naked eye; (1888)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 107
a 96 ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS. would have found herself uncomfortably situated. But, as ifto make amends for neglecting to furnish their heavenly Bullwith hind-quarters, the ancients gave him a most prodigiousand beautiful pair of horns, which make the beholder feelalarm for the safety of… … The Golden Horns of Taurus. stream of minute stars which seem to be gathered into knotsjust beyond the end of the horns, where they dip into theedge of the Milky-Way. Many of these stars can be seen, ona dark night, with an ordinary opera-glass, but, to see themwell, one should use as large a…
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