The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate VII. Ring Nebula in Lyra. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate VIII. Dumb-Eell Nebula in Vulpecula The Night-Sky of Summer 105 Epsilon, a yellowish coloured star of the fourthmagnitude, situated on the frame of the harp close toVega, is a very curious star, and is known as a doubledouble star. It can be divided into two stars by anopera-glass, or even by the unassisted eye. Viewed witha small telescope, each of the two components will befound to
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate VII. Ring Nebula in Lyra. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate VIII. Dumb-Eell Nebula in Vulpecula The Night-Sky of Summer 105 Epsilon, a yellowish coloured star of the fourthmagnitude, situated on the frame of the harp close toVega, is a very curious star, and is known as a doubledouble star. It can be divided into two stars by anopera-glass, or even by the unassisted eye. Viewed witha small telescope, each of the two components will befound to be again double. Gamma, or Sulafat, abouttwo and a half degrees distant from Beta, is a lustrous,yellow star of rather less than the third is a spectroscopic binary, and has a minute distantbluish companion of the eleventh magnitude. Zetaalso is a double star, and is situated about two degreesfrom Epsilon. It is a topaz-tinted star of the fourthmagnitude, w^hile its companion is greenish in colour,and of the sixth magnitude. The distance be-tween the components is a little over two-fifths of aminute. Standing on a line between the stars Beta and Gammaand a
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