The midnight sky, notes on the stars and planets, Volumen231869 |
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... similar comparison with the southern sky for different places , it must also be at the local midnight of each locality . Let us take as an example the February diagrams of the southern sky , which correspond strictly with the heavens on ...
... similar comparison with the southern sky for different places , it must also be at the local midnight of each locality . Let us take as an example the February diagrams of the southern sky , which correspond strictly with the heavens on ...
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... similar circumstances . A few brief general explanations of the maps are requisite . In comparing the diagrams with the sky , the observer is supposed to be looking either due north or south along the exact meridian of his station ...
... similar circumstances . A few brief general explanations of the maps are requisite . In comparing the diagrams with the sky , the observer is supposed to be looking either due north or south along the exact meridian of his station ...
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... similar magnitude . Probably there will be little chance of mistaking any other object for Polaris after reading the following lines : — " Where yonder radiant hosts adorn The northern evening sky , Seven stars , a splendid glorious ...
... similar magnitude . Probably there will be little chance of mistaking any other object for Polaris after reading the following lines : — " Where yonder radiant hosts adorn The northern evening sky , Seven stars , a splendid glorious ...
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... similar daily changes of position arising from the Earth's rotation on its axis once in twenty - four hours . As an example of the daily apparent revolution of the circumpolar stars round the Pole , let us note the position of the Great ...
... similar daily changes of position arising from the Earth's rotation on its axis once in twenty - four hours . As an example of the daily apparent revolution of the circumpolar stars round the Pole , let us note the position of the Great ...
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... similar pair , a little lower , and nearly on the meridian , are two rather brighter stars , named Lambda and Mu Ursa Majoris , situated in the Bear's right hind - foot . These two pairs of stars are very clearly distinguished from the ...
... similar pair , a little lower , and nearly on the meridian , are two rather brighter stars , named Lambda and Mu Ursa Majoris , situated in the Bear's right hind - foot . These two pairs of stars are very clearly distinguished from the ...
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aërolites Aldebaran Alpha Alpherat Andromeda appearance Aquarius Aquila Arcturus Argo Navis astronomers Auriga Australis Beta Beta Auriga Betelgeuse bolide Boötes bright stars brilliant Canis Canis Minor Capella Cassiopeia Castor celestial Centaurus Cepheus chief stars colour comet constellation Cor Caroli Corona Borealis Crux Australis Cygni Cygnus dark diagram diameter direction disk distance double stars Draco Draconis Earth east Eridanus fixed stars Gamma Gamma Pegasi heavens INDEX-MAP John Herschel Jupiter Kocab latitude light looking north Lyra meridian meteors midnight sky miles Milky Moon motion naked eye nearly nebula northern noticed objects observed occupied Ophiuchus orbit Orion pass Pegasus Perseus planet Polaris pole Pollux portion position principal stars Procyon Regulus remarkable Scorpio second magnitude seen Sir John Herschel Sirius small constellation small stars solar south horizon southern hemisphere spectrum Spica stellar Taurus telescope third magnitude Ursa Major Ursa Minor Vega Venus Virgo visible zenith zodiac
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Página 131 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 223 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 313 - Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the heavens and stretched them out ; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein...
Página 313 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Página 313 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Página 313 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 100 - It is a time-piece that advances very regularly near four minutes a day, and no other group of stars exhibits, to the naked eye, an observation of time so easily made. How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, 'Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend!
Página 313 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: That bringeth the princes to nothing ; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Página 315 - ... insecurity. We differ from the leaf only in this circumstance, that it would require the operation of greater elements to destroy us. But these elements exist. The fire which rages within may lift its devouring energy to the surface of our planet, and transform it into one wide and wasting volcano.
Página 315 - A breath of wind tears it from its stem, and it lights on the stream of water which passes underneath. In a moment of time the life, which we know by the microscope it teems with, is extinguished ; and an occurrence so insignificant in the eye of man, and...