BY the first, of November the darkness falls 

 early so that by 7:3© in the evening we 

 may begin a study of the stars. The Dipper 

 is below the North Stari; the Dragon coils 

 around the two brilliant stars in the Little 

 Dipper with his head turped towards the west 

 as if he were looking at 'Hercules as he goes 

 straddling striding down the western sky ; Lyra, 

 marked by the great star Vega, is just above 

 Hercules and above Vega, the Northern Cross 

 stretches its star-tipped farms; south of Vega 

 shines bright Altai! set at e^ial distance and 

 in line with his two guards and a little above 

 him is the diamond-shaped Job's Coffin; all of 

 these constellations are moving down toward 

 .the western horizon. The most noticeable 

 | constellation overhead is the Queen's Chair, the 

 great W stretches across the Zenith, and just 

 south of her lie Andromeda and the great 

 square of Pegasus; stretching down southward 

 from the east arm of the W of the Queen's 

 Chair is a curved line of stars that marks 

 Perseus and below Perseus near the eastern 

 horizon blinks and twinkles great, yellow 

 Capella. That "Fire-fly Swarm" of stars, the 

 Pleiades may now be seen in the east above the 

 V-shaped Hyades with red Aldebaren tipping 

 the lower arm of the V. At 10:00 o'clock by 

 the middle of November magnificent Orion will 

 appear in all his glory in : the southeastern sky, 

 while near the horizon in the northeast those 

 engaging stars, the Heavenly Twins, will be 



twinkling at us. Of the less noticeable con- 

 stellations, Cetus, the Whale, and Pisces, the 

 Fishes, occupy the sky : helpw Andromeda while 

 in the southwest Aquarius and Capricornus 

 stretch out at length their faint stars. There 

 is one star in the far south well worth knowing, 

 and this is Fomalhaut; to find it, draw a line 

 through the pointers in the Big Dipper, through 

 the North Star and extend it straight over to 

 the southern skies, and it will reach this bright 

 star which seems very lonely because there are 

 no other bright stars near it. This star gives 

 out 21 times as much light as our own sun and 

 is only 21 light years away from us. 



