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 123
that itw^as 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 their name from Sirius, as they… … Delta Canis Majoris and its Neighbors. 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 marked~Nvl (v) in the map isreally triple, as thesmallest glass will show.Look next at…
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