The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . the southern hemisphere. On that day, as at thevernal equinox about the 21st of March, the sun isperpendicular over the equator, and day and night areof equal length all over the earth. With the slow changing of the seasons the great,faint, summer groups of stars are slowly sinking in thewest. The straggling Hercules and the brilliant Lyraare now low in the western sky, while the beautifulNorthern Cross is a little west of the zenith. The starsof Bootes and the little circular group
The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend . the southern hemisphere. On that day, as at thevernal equinox about the 21st of March, the sun isperpendicular over the equator, and day and night areof equal length all over the earth. With the slow changing of the seasons the great,faint, summer groups of stars are slowly sinking in thewest. The straggling Hercules and the brilliant Lyraare now low in the western sky, while the beautifulNorthern Cross is a little west of the zenith. The starsof Bootes and the little circular group of the NorthernCrown are about setting in the north-west, while overin the south-west are the three stars of the Flying Eaglewhich form the beautiful shaft of Altair. Ophiuchusand his Serpent are low down on the western horizon,the Scorpion has disappeared in the south-west, and theArcher is fast sinking from view. Almost exactly overhead, between the zenith and 126 CHARTFORABOUT ^ fTheAutum,JiaZZ(ju inoxJ ^UG 15, MIDNIGHTSEP. I, 15,10 I, 9 PMOCT. I, 7 ,6 PATH OF PLANETS —INTHEZODIACAL BAND StarMagnitudesOO * ? * V Zf 3? irtaG^fandiatitrl acalbanoTon eachecliptic. CHART 111-AUTUMN KLGHT SKY The Night-Sky of Autumn 127 Polaris, and westward from Cassiopeia is Cepheus, withhis gem the so-called Garnet Star. South-east ofthe zenith, and nearly east of the Swan, is Pegasus,with its noble stellar figure, the Great Square of Pega-sus. Close to the winged horse is Equus or Equuleus,the Foal, while west of the Square of Pegasus, and eastof the Flying Eagle, is the little, diamond-shaped con-stellation, Delphinus, or Jobs Coffin. On the meridianand on the ecliptic, below Pegasus, is the Water-bearer,and directly beneath it, near the horizon, and east ofthe meridian, is Fomalhaut, the leading star of theSouthern Fish, a conspicuous object on clear autumnnights. West and north of the Southern Fish, headingwestward, is the constellati
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