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 88
the chart of the full moon, p. 70, is more appro-priate. The use, there, of the terrestrial eyepiece to which that photograph is adapted, is,for the beginner, a positive advantage. For as the moon becomes fuller and brighter theadditional lenses of the erecting eyepiece serve to cut down the… … THE MOON, AT TWO DAYS Image Inverted, as in Astronomical Telescope: see Key-Map opposite 74 a ffieoinncrs Star^Book We have already spoken of the lunar seas marked A, B, C, D, E, and of the otherformations from No. i to No. 15. Nos. 16 and 17, not far from the border ofthe Sea of Conflicts (A), are…
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