StNicholas [serial] . THE LOG-CABIN HOMES OFLITTLE STICKS WITH THEROUND CAP OR DOOR ATTHE END. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKSASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY AT HOME 357 Every girl and boy may have one of thelargest astronomical observatories in the many will say. That cant be, for Ihave read of the Yerkes Observatory at WilliamsBay, Wisconsin, and the next largest, the Lick,. ENJOYING THE STARS FROM THE LAWN IN FRONT OKTHE HOUSE. at Mount Hamilton, California, and the otherlarge observatories, and I cannot hope to haveone as large as those. You mean that those have large telescopes
StNicholas [serial] . THE LOG-CABIN HOMES OFLITTLE STICKS WITH THEROUND CAP OR DOOR ATTHE END. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKSASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY AT HOME 357 Every girl and boy may have one of thelargest astronomical observatories in the many will say. That cant be, for Ihave read of the Yerkes Observatory at WilliamsBay, Wisconsin, and the next largest, the Lick,. ENJOYING THE STARS FROM THE LAWN IN FRONT OKTHE HOUSE. at Mount Hamilton, California, and the otherlarge observatories, and I cannot hope to haveone as large as those. You mean that those have large telescopesand large buildings. Let us look at the Cen-tury Dictionary, and see what an observatoryis. Here is the part of the definition thatapplies to your observatory : A place or build-ing ... for making observations. An astro-nomical observatory is so planned as to an unobstructed view, together with sucharrangements as will otherwise facilitate obser-vations. So your observatory, one of the largest inthe world, is the place near your home where you can get the best view of the starry sky,from the point directly overhead, called thezenith, to the great circle where earth and skyseem to meet, called the horizon. Otherplaces may have large buildings and instru-ments, but no more of the sky than from zenithto horizon can be seen. Find your best obser-vatory,— that is, where yo
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