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Title: Astronomy without a telescope:
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Colbert, E(lias) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Astronomy Stars
Publisher: Chicago, G. & C. W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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° East of Sirius, all three on a line withAlphard. A line from the belt of Orion, through,?, and produced 14° farther, will pass through Ad-hara — e — of the 2nd magnitude; 16° from Sirius,in a line with Betelgueuse, and 5^ East of e is y —Aludra — of the 2nd magnitude; 5° above ijtowards /5, is Wesen — 8— forming a triangle withr/ and e. No. 22 is just above s towards 8. a, /?, f,and 7), form a figure nearly approaching to a longparallelogram. Sirius is familiarly known as TheDog Star. 80. Lepus — The Hare. This constellation liesdirectly South of Orion, and contains 19 discerni-ble stars. Below Rigel 11°, and a little West of9° South from Saiph, is Arneb —a —a pale yellowstar of the 3rd magnitude. A little West of 3°South from a, is Nibal — ,3—a deep yellow starof the 4th magnitude ; 4° Southeast from /5, and5° below «, is y; these, with 8, in the Easterncorner, form a trapezium, very similar in size andshape to the dipper of Ursa Minor; 7° Northeast
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SEVEN HOURS IN EIGHT ASCENSION. 27 of a, and 5° South of Saiph, is y, with £ and 6about 2° distant — one on each side. 81> CoLUMBA Noachi— Noahs Dove. Thisconstellation, not shown on the map, lies South ofLepus, and contains 10 discernible stars. Southof Arneb 17°, South of the belt of Orion 33°, and 23°Southwest of Sirius, is Phact — a — of the 2ndmagnitude ; 3° Southeast of a, is /?, of the 3rd mag-nitude, and 1° Northeast ofp is y, of the 4th mag-nitude, Southwest of a, 2°, is e; these four starsmake a small rhomboidal figure. 82. Two stars of the 3rd magnitude, 4° apart,lying East of Canis Major — p and % — are in thebeak of the prow of Argo — the ship. Tureis — p— is 21° Southeast from Sirius, and 25° Southwestfrom Alphard. The scattered stars between thetwo dogs belong to the untraceable constellationMonoceros — The Unicorn. The Milky Way runsdiagonally across the groups shown on Map No. V.;from the arm of Orion and feet of Gemini, be-tween the

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