The heavens above: a popular handbook of astronomy (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908 · New York, Chicago, Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 394
present configura-tion and proper motion of the stars of Cassiopeia, andalso these stars as they will appear thirty-six thousand yearshence. Fig. 422 shows the same for the constellation Orion. 365. Tlic Secular Motion, of flic Sun.—The stars in allparts of the heavens are found to move in all… … Fig. 422. neighborhood of Hercules appear to be apjjroaching us,and those in theopposite part ofthe heavens ap-pear to be re-ceding from us.In other words,all the starsappear to bemoving awayfrom Hercules,and towards theopposite part ofthe heavens. Fig- 423- This apparent motion common to all the…
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