A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 28
reen stars, and indeedstars so diversified in hue that observers attempt in vain to define them, so completelydo they shade into one another. Among large stars, Aldebaran, Antares, and Betelgeuzeare unmistakably tinged with red; Sirius, Vega, and Spica are of a bluish white; Arcturusand Capella… … SPIRAL NEBULA IN COMA BERENICES, KNOWN AS H. V. 24 From a photograph taken at the Mt. Wilsoti Solar Observatory15 i6 H Beginners Star=BooF? In double and multiple stars, however, we meet with the most striking colors andcontrasts; Iota (0 in Cancer, and Gamma (;) in Andromeda, may be instanced. In…
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