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Title: Astronomy without a telescope:
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Colbert, E(lias) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Astronomy Stars
Publisher: Chicago, G. & C. W. Sherwood
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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cales. A few stars of the5th magnitude, lying near these, will be easilylocated. The step-like arrangement of Nos. 51 and48, and 0, rh r, C, and No. 20, is readily recog-nized in the heavens, though the stars are only ofthe 4th magnitude, ft Serpentis forms, with Zu-benelg and Zubenesch, a line of equidistant starsstretching from 2° South of the Equinoctial to theEcliptic. The constellation Libra was so namedbecause when the Sim formerly entered that groupof stars the days and nights were equally balanced.Libra is the most modern of the ancient constella-tions ; on the earlier Zodiacs the claws of the Scor-pion were extended to the feet of Virgo. 98. Scorpio —The Scorpion. This is theninth of the Zodiacal constellations; it is situatedSoutheast from Libra, and contains 44 discerniblestars. It is recognized from the peculiar arrange-ment of the stars in the Southeastern portion.The principal star, Antares — a — a fiery red starof the 1st magnitude, is 46° Southeast by East from
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THE SCALES, AND THE SCORPION. 33 Arista, and 56° Southeast from Arcturus. It islocated near the middle of the body, and henc,eis often called Cor Scorpio—the heart of theScorpion. Nearly equidistant from a, in line with Arctu-rus, are Gramas — /? — a pale white star of the2nd magnitude, above, and e of the 3rd magnitude,below a; 2° on each s de of a are a, of the 4thmagnitude, and r, of the 3rd; two smaller starsalso lie near /?. From these, e, ft.1, n%, C1, ?2, rh6, i, z, u, and X, run in the order named, formingthe tail, and describing nearly three-fourths of anellipse. They are all of the 3rd magnitude; Le-sath — X — in the extremity of the tail, is 19°Southeast of Antares in line with Zubenelg. Theclaws contain many stars of the 4th magnitude; ?,p, -, and <5, forming a line of 12° in length, run-ning due South from the head. The position of4, of the 5th magnitude, in the upper forwardclaw, is best noted by remembering that it is 3°East from No. 51 Libras — the

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