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SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
STARS OF THE SOUTHERN SKIES
BY M. A. ORR (MRS. JOHN EVERSHED)
AUTHOR OF “AN EASY GUIDE TO SOUTHERN STARS” AND “DANTE AND THE EARLY ASTRONOMERS”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough We glimpse the untravelled world whose margin fades Forever and forever.”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1915
All rights reserved
TO MISS MARY PROCTOR
CONTENTS
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THE GREEK LETTERS x
INTRODUCTION xi
I. THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTH: MODERN GROUPS 1
II. THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTH: ANCIENT GROUPS 6
III. THE TEN BRIGHTEST STARS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE 15
IV. STARS OF DIFFERENT AGES 23
V. SOME NEAR NEIGHBOURS 32
VI. DOUBLE AND MULTIPLE STARS 35
VII. THE ASTONISHING STAR, ETA ARGŪS 40
VIII. MIRA, THE WONDERFUL STAR 46
IX. ECLIPSING STARS 51
X. SHORT-PERIOD VARIABLE STARS 54
XI. IRREGULAR AND DOUBTFUL VARIABLES 57
XII. STAR-CLUSTERS 59
XIII. GLOBULAR STAR-CLUSTERS 66
XIV. NEBULAE 72
XV. OTHER TYPES OF NEBULAE 80
XVI. THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN 85
XVII. THE MILKY WAY 88
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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MAP OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE to face Title
THE OLD CONSTELLATION FIGURES OF
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE to face page 6
THE ARCHER page 11
From a Babylonian Boundary Stone now in the British Museum
THE STAR-CLUSTER, 47 TOUCANI to face page 68
From Sir John Herschel’s drawing
THE MILKY WAY IN SCORPIO, LUPUS, AND ARA to face page 88
Photographed at Hanover, Cape Colony, by Bailey and Schultz