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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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19° below Algol,, is a well known groupcalled the Pleiades, containing Alcyone — i?— agreenish yellow star of the 3rd magnitude, andfive others, four of which are of the 5th magni-tude ; the stars in this group are a little nearertogether than indicated on the map. West of thePleiades, 8°, is the group of small stars in thehinder part of Aries (Sec. 56). Southeast fromthe Pleiades 14°, and 32° below Algol, through oPersei, also 26° from Menkar, is a pale rosecolored star of the 1st magnitude, called Alde-baran — a — in the eye of the Bull; and 3° aboveit, in the direction of C Persei is e, of the 3rdmagnitude, a and e form the top of a prominentV-shaped cluster called the Hyades, with y of the3rd magnitude in the angle, pointing towardsMenkar. A line of smaller stars running from justbelow the V towards Menkar, with a lower line,nearly paralled with these, locate the legs of theBull. A line from Menkar through Aldebaran,produced 15° farther, will strike the Ecliptic be-
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THEEE TO SIX HOURS EIGHT ASCENSION. 23 tween two prominent stars at the tips of the Bullshorns, situated 8° apart; El Nath— /9 — the mostnortherly, is a brilliant white star of the 2nd mag-nitude ; the Southern one is C, of the 3rd magni-tude. Three small stars, nearly in a line with thosein the lower foot of Perseus, mark the tops of thehead and ears. This constellation is supposedto have been named to mark the time of the yearwhen the young of cattle are born. 68. Auriga — The Wagoner. This constella-tion is represented on the globe as a mis-shapenman, with a g.oat under one arm, and a bridle inthe other hand. The constellation lies East ofPerseus, and North of the horns of Taurus, withthe left foot resting on the tip of the North horn —El Nath — /3 Tauri — being common to both. Thecircle of 6 hours of Right Ascension forms itsEastern boundary ; it contains 66 discernible stars.A line 18° north from El Nath will strike a, a bril-liant white star of the 1st magnitude, i

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