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 114
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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