A short course in astronomy and the use of the globes (1871)
Kiddle, Henry, 1824-1891 · New York, Chicago, Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & co. · leaf 114
atter, mora than an hour. This differenceis, however, only noticed when the moon happens to be full whilein Pisces or Aries, and thus rises, for several evenings, in the higherlatitudes, but a few minutes later. These full moons must occur,of course, in September and October, when the sun is in the… … HARVEST MOON. England is called the Hardest Moon; in the latter, sometimes, theHunter* & Moon. Let H 8HM represent thehorizon; S, the position of thesun at sunset; M, the full moonjust rising ; SAM, the part ofthe equator, and S B M, thepart of the ecliptic above thehorizon, the sun being in…
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