Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 191
lled the Great Dipper, three making the handle andfour the bowl. The two stars of the bowl which arefarthest from the handle (Merak and Dubhe) are called thePointers, because the straight line which connects thempoints very nearly to the north pole, in whatever positionthe constellation may be.… … Fig. 73.—The Northern Circumpolar Constellations. the Little Dipper (see Fig. 73). This resembles the is one of the most striking of the northern circumpolar constellations ?How is the Great Dipper formed? What stars are called the Pointers,and why? In what constellation is the Pole-star? What does…
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