The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts . Fig. 20.—Figure of a Trapezium. The Mighty Orion.—The brightest constellation in thewhole sky is Orion (pronounced 0-ri-on)? the Great Hunter,as the ancients liked to imagine this group of stars. HOW TO KNOW THE STARS 21 With the exception of the Big Dipper, Orion is the easiestof all the constellations to find provided yon look for it at theright time of the year, which is during the winter months. To locate Orion cut out of cardboard seven large stars and
The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts . Fig. 20.—Figure of a Trapezium. The Mighty Orion.—The brightest constellation in thewhole sky is Orion (pronounced 0-ri-on)? the Great Hunter,as the ancients liked to imagine this group of stars. HOW TO KNOW THE STARS 21 With the exception of the Big Dipper, Orion is the easiestof all the constellations to find provided yon look for it at theright time of the year, which is during the winter months. To locate Orion cut out of cardboard seven large stars and. Fig. 21.—Constellation of Orion. three small stars. Near the lower edge of the blackened card-board pin two large and two small stars to form what is calleda trapezium, that is, four straight lines forming a figure, noneof which are parallel, as shown in Fig. 20. About halfwayacross the figure pin three large stars in a row, at equal dis-tances apart and tilted a little, as shown in Fig. 21. These three stars form the Belt of Orion, for a mightyhunter must needs have a belt, and this belt of bright stars is g£ THE BOOK OF THE STARS one of the best known groups in the whole sky. Across the beltand nearly at right angles to it pin three small stars; thesesmall stars form the sword or dagger of the fanciful hunter butthey are of more use to us than to him, as will be seen the top of the star chart pin the North Star so that itwill be in a direct line with the three small stars forming theSword of Orion. Your star chart of Orion is now ready to becompared with the one in t
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