CONSTELLATIONS AND PLANETS. 



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On any clear night it is visible in any part of Canada. Observe 

 it at an early hour and again at a later hour in the same even- 

 ing, and, if practicable, on the following morning, to learn the 

 circuit that it appears to make. The two outer stars of the 

 bowl always point to the North Star. The Big W, Cassiopeia's 

 Chair, is on the opposite side of the North Star and about the 

 same distance from it as the Big Dipper, as shown in the 

 following diagrams : — 



The Winter Evening Sky. — Capella is overhead between 10 

 p.m. and 11 p.m. in earry January, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. 

 in early February, and between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. about the 

 beginning of March. At 9 p.m. about the 1st of January the 

 sky shows the following arrangement of conspicuous stars : — 



* 



^Bi (5 Dipper 



Vega 



=3 



U* jh Sickle 



Regulus 



The to 6 Quarter. Line is overhead at 8 p.m. about the 22nd of 

 November. Line 6 is overhead at 8 p.m. about the 21st of January, 



