A Primer for Star-Gazers

360 Pages·1946·13.596 MB·English

by  Henry Milton Neely

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PRIMER FOR
STAR-GAZERS
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PRIMER FOR
STAR-GAZERS
By HENRY M. NEELY
Author <2/“The Star Finder,” etc.
STAR MAPS AND
LINE DRAWINGS
BY THE AUTHOR
HARPER 6? BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1946, BY HARPER & BROTHERS. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
ALL RIGHTS IN THIS BOOK ARE RESERVED. NO PART OF THE BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN
ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF BRIEF
QUOTATIONS EMBODIED IN CRITICAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS. FOR INFORMATION ADDRESS
HARPER & BROTHERS
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This book is an effort to rescue the ancient love of
simple star-gazing from the avalanche of mathematics
and physics under which modern astronomy threat¬
ens to bury it.
AUTHORITIES USED IN THIS BOOK
For the benefit of any professionals who may happen to see
a copy of this Primer, it may be well to list the principal
authorities used in its compilation.
In the charts and pictures of the various groups all star
positions (refigured for precession to 1950) are derived from
the Yale Catalogue of Bright Stars by Schlesinger and Jenkins.
Stellar magnitudes as given in that catalogue have also been
used.
Star distances mentioned in the text are figured from the
Yale parallaxes.
Pronunciations are given in my own phonetic spelling of
the diacritical marks used in the authorized list of pronuncia¬
tions adopted by the American Astronomical Society, plus a
supplementary list by George A. Davis, Jr., one of the mem¬
bers of the committee, published in Popular Astronomy.
The orientation of all charts of the groups for various
times has been checked for altitude and azimuth by means of
the tables in H. O. 214.
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