The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 406
in the sky. Gradually the crescent broadens out, as the Moonmoves away from the Sun, until on or about the seventhday—the Moon changing approximately every sevenand a half days—it reaches a position designated as itsfirst quarter, and is then a bright semi-circle off in thesouth at sunset. During… … Paris Observatory Plate XXVI. The Moon at Nineteen Days (Image inverted as in astronomical telescopes) « The Moon 337 about the fourteenth day, the Moon is opposite the Sun,and the whole of its round disk appears illuminated. Itis then alluded to as full moon (Plate XXV.), risingabout sunset and…
Stars · Constellations · Planets
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