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 96
ying, approxi-mately, to the region along the ecliptic occupied by the stars of Capricornus; the sign of Capricornus applying,approximately, to the region of Sagittarius, etc., and finally the sign of Aries falling in Pisces. The conventionalsymbols of the signs are as follows:—Aries T; Taurus 8;… … MARS From the Yerki-s Observatory 82 a Beoinners Star^BooJ? far steadier; but there are times when Venus and even Jupiter will seem to twinkle mostamazingly, and there are other times—the atmospheric conditions being good—when thelight of the stars will be calm and undisturbed. For twinkling is…
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