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STAR STUDY FOR LATE OCTOBER AND EARLY NOVEMBER 



October and November are ideal months for star study. The nights are not too cold and 

 darkness falls early enough so that children are able to make their observations before bedtime. 



The Big Dipper is below the Pole Star, with its handle toward the West, very near the North- 

 ern Horizon; the Little Dipper also hangs down from the Pole Star in the Northwest, and the 

 tail of the Dragon may be seen between the two Dippers but his head with the two bright eyes 

 may be seen just north of Vega; the Crown has almost dropped out of sight in the Northwest. 

 The Northern Cross has its foot to the westward but brilliant Deneb at its head is nearly over 

 head. Vega with her train of five stars illumines the western sky and souih of her Altair in the 

 Eagle vies with her In brightness. Job's Coffin is higher up and east of che Eagle. Cassopeia 

 is climbing up the East and on November 16th is nearly overhead. The three stars curved be- 

 low the Northern stars in Cassopeia which mark Perseus may be easily seen : Andromeda and 

 Pegasus are well up in the eastern sky. Carry a straight line through the Big Dipper to the 

 Pole Star and continue it on to the southern part of the sky and ic will come very near to a 

 bright star Shining alone, — this star is Fomalhaut. It is a sun that gives twenty times ns 

 much light as our sun and it takes light 21 years to reach us from it. In the East may be seen 

 the misty little swarm of stars, the Pleiades and below them the V-shaped Hyadcs willi red 

 Aldebaran at the end of the lower arm of the V. 



The planets are so placed that Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are all morning stars. 



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