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 109
arance, hemust use a powerful telescope. But with n 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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