Half-Hours with the Stars Half-Hours with the Stars

Half-Hours with the Stars

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Publisher Description

It is very easy to gain a knowledge of the stars, if the learner sets to work in the proper manner. But he commonly meets with a difficulty at the outset of his task. He provides himself with a set of the ordinary star-maps, and then finds himself at a loss how to make use of them. Such maps tell him nothing of the position of the constellations on the sky. If he happen to recognize a constellation, then indeed his maps, if properly constructed, will tell him the names of the stars forming the constellation, and also he may be able to recognize a few of the neighboring constellations. But when he has done this he may meet with a new difficulty, even as respects this very constellation. For if he look for it again some months later, he will neither find it in its former place nor will it present the same aspect, —if indeed it happen to be above the horizon at all.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
1888
1 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
34
Pages
PUBLISHER
Public Domain
SIZE
10.4
MB

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