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 23
which to understand the Scriptural declaration that onestar differeth from another in glory. The radiant point ofthe famous November meteors, which, in 1833 and 1866, filledthe sky with fiery showers, is near Gamma. Turn next to thestar in Leo marked Zeta (f). If your glass is a pretty largeand… … Map 2. nearest of the two on the south is faint, being only betweenthe eighth and ninth magnitude, and will probably severelytest your powers of vision. Next look at Epsilon (e), andyou will find near it two seventh-magnitude companions,making a beautiful little triangle. Away at the eastern end of…
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