An Easy Guide to the Constellations with a Miniature Atlas of the Stars |
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Aldebaran Alphard Altair ANDROMEDA Antares AQUARIUS AQUILA Arcturus Argo ARIES Atlas AURIGA best seen BOÖTES brighter brightest star CALIF CALIFOR CANCER CANIS MAJOR CANIS MINOR CAPRICORNUS Castor and Pollux centre Cepheus CETUS Charles's Wain constella constellation constellation called constellation figures CORVUS CROWN CYGNUS DRACO Dragon Easy Guide Eridanus faint stars form the constellation found by drawing four stars GEMINI heavens HERCULES horizon Hyades Hydra Jupiter LEPUS LIBRA line of fainter line of stars LION Little Bear monster names October OPHIUCHUS opposite diagram ORION PEGASUS Perseus PISCES Pleiades PLOUGH and CASSIOPEIA Pointers Pole Star Procyon Regulus represented right-hand stars round SAGITTARIUS SCORPIO semicircle of faint side Sirius small stars Spica star called stars belong stars close stars of CASSIOPEIA stars which form stellation tail TAURUS third star three stars triangle of stars UNIVERSITY OF CAL UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA upper URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR VIRGO visible Zodiac
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Page 9 - The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins, And next the Crab the Lion shines, The Virgin and the Scales ; The Scorpion, Archer, and He-goat, The Man that holds the watering-pot, And Fish with glittering tails.
Page 8 - Aries; 2 Taurus; 3 Gemini; 4 Cancer; 5 Leo; 6 Virgo; 7 Libra; 8 Scorpio; 9 Sagittarius; 10 Capricornus; 11 Aquarius; 12 Pisces.
Page 16 - Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, king of Ethiopia, and mother of Andromeda.
Page 58 - SAGITTARIUS is represented as a strange creature, with the head and shoulders of a man, and the body and legs of a horse, who is shooting an arrow at the heart of the SCORPION.
Page 2 - What tho' no real voice nor sound Amidst their radiant orbs be found? In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing as they shine, , "The hand that made us is divine." As for the personal conclusion of the matter, that surely is evident. In days like these we need the inward reinforcement of spiritual power, and nothing noisy can supply it. There are families here whose anxious thoughts follow their deepest loves to the ends of the earth today. There are homes...
Page 6 - ... the stars appear to move in circles which get larger and larger...
Page 38 - Pollux were the two youths who, at the battle of Lake Regillus, suddenly appeared on milk-white horses to aid the hardpressed Romans. After the battle they disappeared, and not till then did the Romans realize that it was the "Heavenly Twins" themselves who had helped them.
Page 44 - A straight line from the Pole Star passing through the Pointers in the PLOUGH (Map 1) will bring us to the constellation of LEO, the Lion.
Page 36 - Pleiades were seven daughters of Atlas, whom the gods placed among the stars near their sisters, the Hyades.