Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Telescope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement Andromeda, to the right of which lies Cassiopeia, the stars B and 6 Of this constellation lying directly towards the north-west, while the' star on lies almost exactly midway between the zenith and the horizon. Above Andromeda, a little towards the left, lies Perseus, Algol being almost exactly towards the west and one-third of the way from the zenith towards the horizon (because one-third of the way from ...
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Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Telescope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement Andromeda, to the right of which lies Cassiopeia, the stars B and 6 Of this constellation lying directly towards the north-west, while the' star on lies almost exactly midway between the zenith and the horizon. Above Andromeda, a little towards the left, lies Perseus, Algol being almost exactly towards the west and one-third of the way from the zenith towards the horizon (because one-third of the way from the centre towards the circumference of the map). Almost exactly in the zenith is the star 8 Aurigae. The four maps are miniatures of Maps I., IV., VII., and X. Of my 'constellation Seasons, ' fourth-magnitude stars, however, being omitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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