The Heavens in July. 



BY PROFESSOR ERIC DOOLITTLE, OF THE 

 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 



The July evenings witness the com- 

 plete disappearance of the beautiful 

 group Gemini and of the faint and my- 

 thologically interesting Cancer; the 

 Water Snake has plunged almost whol- 

 ly below the western horizon, while the 



The July Stars. 

 The striking midsummer group of 

 the Scorpion has now reached its high- 

 est position of the year and is seen ex- 

 actly on the meridian well up from the 

 ground in the south. The interesting 

 group of the Archer with its wealth of 

 double and multiple suns and whose 

 western stars form the well-known 



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SOUTH 



Figure 1. — The Constellations 9 P. M. July 1. (If facing south, hold the map upright. If facing 

 west, hold West below. If facing east, hold East below. If facing north, hold the map inverted.) 



beautiful Capella which leaves our 

 evening sky for but a few weeks each 

 year and which is so near the Pole that 

 north of latitude forty-six degrees it 

 does not set at all, is now almost exact- 

 ly on the horizon in the extreme north- 

 east. 



"Milk Dipper," may be seen closely fol- 

 lowing Scorpion to the east, while the 

 beautiful Northern Cross, the bright 

 Aquilla and the strange little group of 

 the Dolphin, often called "Job's Coffin." 

 have now all mounted high in the east- 

 ern sky. 



