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Title: The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922
Subjects: Stars Constellations Planets
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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the first night-sky of summer.At about 9:30 P.M., the beautiful, but not very.con-spicuous, constellations of summer appear as representedin Chart II., and with its help they may be readilytraced as they mount up and cross the sky, A silent night-watch oer the world to keep. The same chart represents the appearance of thegreat dome of the sky at about 11 P.M. at the beginningof June, about 10 p.m. the middle of June, about 9 p.m.the first week of July, and 8 p.m. about the middle ofJuly. The magnificent winter constellations have now aboutall disappeared in the west, while the last of the springconstellations are sinking rapidly towards the horizon.High up in the north-west is the Greater Bear, descend-ing the starry slope head foremost, and directly in thenorth is the Lesser Bear postured acrobatically on thetip of his tail. In the far north the yellow star Capella, the chiefof the dauntless Charioteer, is seen scintillating palely, 80 CHARTFORABOUT JUN. 21 »T (The SummerSolsticeJ,
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EACH <i\ij^ \jr I nc ci^L OO ♦ ♦ - T 2 3? ^rtoB^/andundarl CHAKT 11-SUMMER NIGHT SET The Night-Sky of Summer 8i and just ready to set; while in the south-west areseen the two bright stars of the Balance, or goldenScales. Just west of the meridian, near the zenith,is the Y-shaped group of stars composing the stragglingBear-driver, and the delicate Northern Crown. Verti-cally beneath the Crown is the head of the Serpent,and on the east, almost overhead, is the great groupof Hercules with its wonderful cluster. Beyond Her-cules towards the north-east is the diamond-shapedhead of the great shining Dragon. Far down towards the southern horizon is the Scor-pion with its leader the blazing red star Antares. Inthe Milky Way, east of the Scorpion, lies Sagittarius, theArcher, with the inverted little milk dipper and thebended bow. Above the Scorpion and the Archerare the intertwined constellations of Ophiuchus, theSerpent-bearer, and his Serpent. Low in the north-east is Cassiopeia, the

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