The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . Yerkes Observatory Plate X. Star-Cluster in Hercules. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate XL Lace Nebula in Cygnus The Night-Sky of Summer 121 Observatory show, it is said, not six thousand, butsixty thousand stars. Halley, who discovered it in1714, alluded to it as one of the six nebulae known atthat time. Like Omega Centauri, of which it is almostan exact duplicate, it abounds in variable stars. Cygnus (The Flying Swan) Situated in the midst of the Milky Way, east of Lyra,and sou
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . Yerkes Observatory Plate X. Star-Cluster in Hercules. Mount Wilson Solar Observatory Plate XL Lace Nebula in Cygnus The Night-Sky of Summer 121 Observatory show, it is said, not six thousand, butsixty thousand stars. Halley, who discovered it in1714, alluded to it as one of the six nebulae known atthat time. Like Omega Centauri, of which it is almostan exact duplicate, it abounds in variable stars. Cygnus (The Flying Swan) Situated in the midst of the Milky Way, east of Lyra,and south of Cepheus, is Cygnus, the Flying Swan,one of the finest constellations in the northern sky. Itis represented by a figure of a star-spangled swan, withwide-spread wings, flying down the Milky Way, towardthe south-west. Smith, in Come Learn of the Stars, thus alludes to it: Yonder goes Cygnus, the Swan, flying southward,—Sign of the Cross, and of Christ unto me. Cygnus is a prominent object in the summer night-sky, and contains one star of the second magnitude,five of the third, and a number of the fourth, fifth, andsixth magnitudes. It is visible from May
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