Kippax, John Robert, 1849- [from old catalog] · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 228
a space of a little more than threesquare degrees. Nine of the brightest stars bear thenames of Atlas and his seven daughters, and theirmother, the nymph Pleione. The six which are plainlyvisible to the average eye are Alcyone, Maia, Electra,Atlas, Merope, and Taygeta, while Celseno, Pleione,and… … Harvard College Observatory Plate XVI. The Little Dipper of the Pleiades (View at culmination) The Night-Sky of Winter 175 With an opera-glass, thirty more stars may be counted,and with a two-inch telescope about one hundred,while the photographic plate reveals nearly twenty-fivehundred. The…
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