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THE NEBULA IN PLEIADES SHOWN BY PHOTOGRAPHY. 



This photograph and the one on the previous page are from the Yerkes Observatory. 



ranks with music as a cultural pleasure 

 for those that can enjoy it. The trouble 

 enters when we notice that comparatively 

 few have the proper mentality for the en- 

 joyment of "the music of the spheres." 



In guiding- visitors at the new Sound 

 Beach Astronomical Observatory, I am 

 more and more impressed by the fact that 

 the telescope is a disappointment to most 



persons. They think that a star will be 

 magnified until it will resemble gorgeous 

 fireworks, and when they are told that 

 even the best and largest glasses show a 

 fixed star as only a fine point of light, 

 they ask. "What is the use of all this 

 equipment then? 1 can see as well as 

 that without a telescope." 



The amateur astronomer regards Jupi- 



