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 85
70 a Beoinncr0 Star^Book upon this side, we may see the increase of the lunar day as the Suns rays Hght up more andmore of the moons surface. In the illustration on p. ]2i ^^ may see the advance of the Sunat 2 days; on p. 75 the Suns advance at 6 days; on p.]] at 9,^^ days; on this page at… … THE MOON AT FOURTEEN AND ONE-HALF DAYS Image erected; for Study with Opera-Glass or Field-Glass, or with Telescope using Terrestrial Eyepiece side of the moon toward us catches daily a little less of the Suns light, the long lunar sun-set begins, black night falls upon the sunrise side—the side to…
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