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KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



[January 1, 1887. 



THE SOUTHERN SKIES FOR MARCH. 



THK SKIES OF SOUTHERN LATITUDES AND THE SOUTH 

 HALF OF OUK SKIES AT HOME. 



TOWARDS the south in England we see, at the hours 

 named under the map, the skies shown in the map's 

 upper half. Along the horizon, due east, the Virgin is 

 rising : in the south-east a few stars of Corvus the Crow, 



Travelling southwards, the voyager at the same seasons 

 and hours sees more and more of Argo towards the aouth. 

 In the manner described last month, the Centaur, the Cross, 

 and the Magellanic Clouds rise above the southern hoiizon, 

 precisely at the rate corresponding to the traveller's journey 

 southwards over a spherical surface. A study of the map 

 combined with the explanation given last month, will suffice 

 to show precisely liow the southern skj'scape varies at this 

 season, with the progress of the traveller towards the 



Night Skies of the Southern Hemispheke for Maech.— For Index Map see opposite page. 



and the whole constellation Crater the Cup, are seen. Due 

 south is a part of Argo, merely the poop showing above 

 our horizon; on its right the Dog Catds; Orion in the 

 south-west ; and beyond, towards the west, a part of the 

 River, Er id anus ; and the head of the fka. Monster, Cetus, 

 almost due west. 



latitudes for which the map has been constructed. When 

 those latitudes have been reached, the stellar heavens are 

 presented as shown in the map, the centre marking the 

 point overhead, and the circumference the horizon. 



Due south, below the pole, the Reacock, Favo, pleasantly 

 imagined by Lacaille as a suitable companion for the Indian, 



