The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 338
ve, being the vanishing point ofthe parallel lines in which the meteors are actually moving. ASTRONOMY. 3II These lines are seen, not in their real direction in space,but as projected on the celestial sphere. If we look up-wards, and watch snow falling through a calm atmosphere,the flakes which… … Fig. 352. to move at all, and marks the point from which all theothers seem to radiate. 312. The August Meteors. — A meteoric shower of nogreat briUiancy occurs annually about the loth of August.The radiant point of this shower is in the constellation Per-seus, and hence these meteors are often…
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