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    Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
    Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
    Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations
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    Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations

    By Richard A. Proctor

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    "Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations" by Richard A. Proctor is a reference book to educate readers about the night sky. With charts and, at the time, cutting-edge information, this text allowed people with a casual interest in the sky to learn how to observe the stars and learn about their history, magic, and constellations. Even to this day, the book is essential reading for those who love the sky.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066240615
    Half-Hours with the Stars: A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations

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      Half-Hours with the Stars - Richard A. Proctor

      Richard A. Proctor

      Half-Hours with the Stars

      A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066240615

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION ON THE USE OF THE MAPS.

      NIGHT SKY.—DECEMBER AND JANUARY.

      NIGHT SKY.—JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

      NIGHT SKY.—FEBRUARY AND MARCH.

      NIGHT SKY.—MARCH AND APRIL.

      NIGHT SKY.—APRIL AND MAY.

      NIGHT SKY.—MAY AND JUNE.

      NIGHT SKY.—JUNE AND JULY.

      NIGHT SKY.—JULY AND AUGUST.

      NIGHT SKY.—AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.

      NIGHT SKY.—SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.

      NIGHT SKY.—OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER.

      NIGHT SKY.—NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.

      INTRODUCTION ON THE USE OF THE MAPS.

      Table of Contents

      It is very easy to gain a knowledge of the stars, if the learner sets to work in the proper manner. But he commonly meets with a difficulty at the outset of his task. He provides himself with a set of the ordinary star-maps, and then finds himself at a loss how to make use of them. Such maps tell him nothing of the position of the constellations on the sky. If he happen to recognize a constellation, then indeed his maps, if properly constructed, will tell him the names of the stars forming the constellation, and also he may be able to recognize a few of the neighboring constellations. But when he has done this he may meet with a new difficulty, even as respects this very constellation. For if he look for it again some months later, he will neither find it in its former place nor will it present the same aspect,—if indeed it happen to be above the horizon at all.

      It is clear, then, that what the learner wants is a set of maps specially constructed to show him in what part of the sky the constellations are to be looked for. He ought on any night of the year to be able to turn at once to the proper map, and in that map he ought to see at once what to look for, toward what point of the compass each visible constellation lies, and how high it is above the horizon. And, if possible (as the present work shows is the case), one map ought to suffice to exhibit the aspect of the whole heavens, in order that the beginner may not be confused by turning from map to map, and trying to find out how each fits in with the

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