Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere (1911)
Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 562
m to be the Lost Pleiad. Pleione was the mother of the seven sisters, and her starmay be the true Lost Pleiad, as the spectroscope revealsevidence of its variable character. It has been suggestedthat the Lost Pleiad may have been a nova, that is, a starwhich flashed out brilliantly for a time, only… … The Pleiades, Showing Nebula(Bruce 24-inch Telescope.) Courtesy of Prof. E. C. Pickering The Pleiades 425 good telescope six hundred stars have been counted, whilein a photograph of the cluster taken in 1888 no less thantwo thousand three hundred and twenty-six stars wererevealed. Of this great…
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