. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Sky Study 897 5. Note that west of the red star above and east of the white star below are two fainter stars. If we connect these four stars by hnes we shall make an irregular four-sided figure, fencing in the belt and sword. Sketch this figure with the belt and sword, and write on your diagram the name of the red star above and the white star below and also the name of the con- stellation. 6. Which star of the constellation rises first in the evening? Which last? 7. Write an English
. Handbook of nature-study for teachers and parents, based on the Cornell nature-study leaflets. Nature study. Sky Study 897 5. Note that west of the red star above and east of the white star below are two fainter stars. If we connect these four stars by hnes we shall make an irregular four-sided figure, fencing in the belt and sword. Sketch this figure with the belt and sword, and write on your diagram the name of the red star above and the white star below and also the name of the con- stellation. 6. Which star of the constellation rises first in the evening? Which last? 7. Write an English theme on the story of Orion, the great hunter. Supplementary readingâStories of Starland, Proctor; The Stars in Song and Legead- Pfttter; Storyland of the Stars, Pratt. /iLDEBARAN AND THE PLEIADES Teacher's Story Almost in a line with the belt of Orion, up in the skies northwest from it, is the rosy star Aldebaran. This ruddy star, which is not so red as Betle- geuse, marks the end of the lower arm of a V-shaped constellation composed of this and four other stars. This constellation is the Hyades (hi'a-des). The Hyades is a part of the constellation called by the ancients Taurus, the bull, and is the head of the in- furiated animal. Aldebaran is a comparatively near neighbor of ours, since it takes light only thirty-two Aldebaran in the V- years_ to pass from it to us. It gives off about forty- 'J^l^//Z'^H^adeT five times as much light as does our sun; it lies in the 7-/,/^ {^ a pari of path traversed by the moon as it crosses the sky, and is the consiellaiion, often thus hidden from our view. Taurus. Although we are attracted by many bright stars in the win- ter sky, yet there is a little misty group of stars, which has ever held the human attention enthralled, and of which the poets of all the ages have sung. These stars are called the Pleiades (ple'ya-dees); most eyes can count only six stars in the constellation. There are nine stars large enough to be seen through the tel
Size: 1860px × 1343px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcomstockannabotsford1, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
