The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts (1915)
Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 24
sky just as the cardboard stars arefixed on the black surface of your chart, and which are shown inFigs. 4 and 5. The Big Dipper.—This group of seven stars is called theBig Dipper because if a broken line joined all the stars together HOW TO FIND THE NORTH STAR 5 a very good figure of a big dipper… … Fig. 5.—Line for Sighting the North Star. In England this group of stars, or constellation, is sometimescalled the Plough, for our friends across the pond see in it thelikeness of a plough as well as of a dipper. It is also called theGreat Bear the world over after the ancient name given it, but…
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