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The friendly stars : [electronic resource] how to locate and identify them / Martha Evans Martin, Donald Howard Menzel ; with new ill. by Ching-Sung Yü ; foreword by Donald Howard Menzel and William W. Morgan.

By: Martin, Martha Evans, d. 1925.
Contributor(s): Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard), 1901-1976.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Dover Publications, c1966Edition: Dover ed.Description: xi, 147 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0486210995 (pbk.) :; 9780486210995 (pbk.).Subject(s): Stars -- Charts, diagrams, etc | Constellations | AstronomyDDC classification: 523.8/0223 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library
Contents:
The rising and the setting of the stars -- Concerning the brightest stars -- Capella -- Arcturus - Spica -- Vega -- Deneb -- Altair -- Antares -- Fomalhaut -- Aldebaran -- Orion's bright stars -- The heavenly twins -- The two dog stars -- Regulus -- The number of the stars -- The names of the stars -- The light of the stars -- The distance of the stars -- Double stars -- The constellations -- The Little Bear and Polaris -- The Great Bear and the seven stars of the Dipper -- Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and the Dragon -- From the Hunting Dogs to the Arrow -- From the Winged Horse to the Bull -- The mystery of the Pleiades -- From the Twins back to the Hunter -- Constellations wholly or in part south of the equator -- Individuality of the stars.
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"A new edition of an astronomical classic."

Reprint. Originally published in 1964 as a revised and enlarged version of the work originally published by Harper & Brothers in 1907.

Includes celestial charts on 1 folded sheet (41 x 72 cm.) attached to inside back cover: North circumpolar star charts -- Equatorial star charts.

The rising and the setting of the stars -- Concerning the brightest stars -- Capella -- Arcturus - Spica -- Vega -- Deneb -- Altair -- Antares -- Fomalhaut -- Aldebaran -- Orion's bright stars -- The heavenly twins -- The two dog stars -- Regulus -- The number of the stars -- The names of the stars -- The light of the stars -- The distance of the stars -- Double stars -- The constellations -- The Little Bear and Polaris -- The Great Bear and the seven stars of the Dipper -- Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and the Dragon -- From the Hunting Dogs to the Arrow -- From the Winged Horse to the Bull -- The mystery of the Pleiades -- From the Twins back to the Hunter -- Constellations wholly or in part south of the equator -- Individuality of the stars.

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