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A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)

Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 60

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he naked-eye groups, the well-known Pleiades, issituated in the constellation of Taurus. Plate 6 is a view of this group as taken from a recent telescopicphotograph. In this cluster, with ordinary eyesight only, six or seven stars can be seen, but with the telescopethe number increases with the… … Nebulae—Plate 8.

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