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THE NATURE STUDY COURSE. 



The Sky in the Evenings of Autumn. — The Big W is on our 

 zenith meridian at 11 p.m. in mid-October, at 9 p.m. in mid- 

 November, and at 7 p.m. in mid-December. Fomalhaut is in 

 the south-west. The great square of Pegasus is overhead and 

 the Pleiades and the Bull's Head are well up in the east. 

 At 9 p.m. about the 1st of October the sky appears as in 

 this map : — 



12 



^Capel 



BigDipi 



■*.. 



3 Kids 



EAST 



*TheWlu 



Job's Coffin*; 



f AQUARIUS * 



ATCtunis . 



Boote£ - * /*■. 



K .-* 



% *' 



Northern **■£ Gemma 

 Crown ** 



-' **HER£ULES 



* 



Ve£a 



AMtc 



wes: 



18 



CAPRICORN 



^malhaut 



The 18 to 24 Quarter. Line 18 is overhead at 8 p.m. on the 22nd of 

 August. Line or 24 is overhead at 8 p.m. on the 22nd of November. 



At 9 p.m. (solar time) in the middle of September, the line 

 drawn from the North Star, due south— the zenith meridian — 



