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 40
Fig. 20.—Figure of a Trapezium. The Mighty Orion.—The brightest constellation in thewhole sky is Orion (pronounced 0-ri-on)? the Great Hunter,as the ancients liked to imagine this group of stars. HOW TO KNOW THE STARS 21 With the exception of the Big Dipper, Orion is the easiestof all the… … Fig. 21.—Constellation of Orion. three small stars. Near the lower edge of the blackened card-board pin two large and two small stars to form what is calleda trapezium, that is, four straight lines forming a figure, noneof which are parallel, as shown in Fig. 20. About halfwayacross the figure pin…
Astronomy · Stars
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