. Percy's Pocket dictionary of Coney Island : an index and guide to railroads and steamboat routes, hotels, amusements, restaurants, historical and geographical facts, and all other things in and about this resort; with an appendix on bathing, swimming, and the summer stars . ravel man) timesover the skies before they will learn to recognizeat a glance your friends among the millions. Finding the Pole Star. {Popularly known as the North Star) First look for Ursa Major, the Great on the beach facing the ocean, turnright about face, look up, toward the left (north-west), and you ca
. Percy's Pocket dictionary of Coney Island : an index and guide to railroads and steamboat routes, hotels, amusements, restaurants, historical and geographical facts, and all other things in and about this resort; with an appendix on bathing, swimming, and the summer stars . ravel man) timesover the skies before they will learn to recognizeat a glance your friends among the millions. Finding the Pole Star. {Popularly known as the North Star) First look for Ursa Major, the Great on the beach facing the ocean, turnright about face, look up, toward the left (north-west), and you cannot miss the familiar set ofseven bright stars of the Great Bear, betterknown as the Dipper, owing to its shape, fourof the stars forming its cup, three its handle.*The two end stars (of the cup, or the most dis-tant from the handle, and at this season the low-estf) are called the Pointers, because they always * Suspended from the two lower stars are two tassels, eachconsisting of three stars, two near each other at the end of thetassel, and the third nearer the Dipper. Another pair of smallstars make a third tassel.— t Supposing youlook for the Dipper at various seasons, sayat nine oclock in the evening, you will see it in the various TFIE SUMMER STARS. 97. Summer Star Map. \See Explanation on next page^ q8 THE SUMMER STARS. EXPLANATION .OF MAP. This map is a reproduction of one of Proctors Star Maps,giving, as follows, the approximate position of the more promi-nent stars during summer: End of yune—toward o/July—toward eleven o/ July—toward ten of August—toward nine of August—toward eight oclock. The shifting of the stars during the intervening hours canbe followed by bearing in mind that stars seen at a certainhour and place will appear on the same spot three to fourminutes sooner on the following evening, or about two hoursearlier a month later. {See also^ p. loo, The Apparent Mo-tion of the Stars.) In
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