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 . ia, will stand out so clear and bright that you will wonderwhy you have never seen it before. Fig. 14 shows this group of stars and the outline of theunhappy Cassiopeia who is as often standing on her head as onher feet, but it requires the imagination of an Arabian star-gazer to see the likeness. The Little Dipper.—Although some of the stars which. 16 THE BOOK OF THE STARS form the Little Dipper are very faint it is included in our listof 12 principal cons
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 . ia, will stand out so clear and bright that you will wonderwhy you have never seen it before. Fig. 14 shows this group of stars and the outline of theunhappy Cassiopeia who is as often standing on her head as onher feet, but it requires the imagination of an Arabian star-gazer to see the likeness. The Little Dipper.—Although some of the stars which. 16 THE BOOK OF THE STARS form the Little Dipper are very faint it is included in our listof 12 principal constellations for two reasons: first, because it contains the very im-portant North Star,and second, because itis easy to find. The North Star isthe last star in thehandle of the LittleDipper. The two outerstars which form thebowl of the Little Dip-per, and which arecalled the Guardians ofthe Pole, are quitebright, and after a fewtrials you can easilyput in the stars that are too dim to be seen, and so complete inyour minds eye the outline of the Little Dipper as you have iton your chart. Fig. 15 shows the arrangement of the stars in. Fig. 14.—Cassiopeia as the Arabs SawHer.
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