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 28
said HOW TO FIND THE NORTH STAR 9 about the Big Dipper is just as true of all the other constella-tions. For these reasons we would need an almanac to help us keeptrack of the exact hour when the Big Dipper would be in agiven position for every night in the year. But you can alwaysfind the Big… … Fig. 9.—The North Star and Big Dipper in Winter. about nine oclock in the evening you will find it standing on itshandle a little to the east as in Fig. 9. In spring about 9 oclock,it will have moved on round the North Star until it is upsidedown, as in Fig. 10, while in summer, at 9, it is hung up…
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