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 30
ine with the eye through the pointer stars andproduce, or continue the line, it will run into the North Star,nearly. HOW TO FIND THE NORTH STAR 11 By using these pointer stars it is easy for any one who knowsthe Big Dipper to be able to find the North Star on any clearnight in the year, for the Big… … Fig. 11.—The North Star and Big Dipper in Summer. Now look sharply at the middle star in the handle of theBig Dipper, whose name is Mizar (pronounced Me-zar), andsee if you can make out another little star whose name is Alcor(pronounced Al-cor) hugging up close to it. The Arabs whonamed them called…
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