Pleasures of the telescope / An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER I
The Selection and Testing of a Glass	1
How to get a good telescope—Difference between reflectors and refractors—How a telescope is made achromatic—The way to test a telescope on stars.
CHAPTER II
In the Starry Heavens	19
Orion and its wonders, Lepus, Canis Major, Argo, Monoceros, Canis Minor, and the Head of Hydra.
CHAPTER III
From Gemini To Leo and Round About	38
The zodiacal constellations Gemini, Cancer, and Leo, and their neighbors Auriga, the Lynx, Hydra, Sextans, and Coma Berenices.
CHAPTER IV
Virgo and Her Neighbors	57
Crater and Corvus, Hydra, Virgo, the "Field of the NebulÆ," Libra, BoÖtes, and the great Arcturus, Canes Venatici, and Corona Borealis.
CHAPTER V
In Summer Star-lands	75
Scorpio and its red-green gem, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, Scutum Sobieskii, Capricornus, Serpens, Hercules, Draco, Aquila, and Delphinus.
CHAPTER VI
From Lyra To Eridanus	97
Lyra and its brilliant Vega, Cygnus, Vulpecula, Aquarius, Equuleus, Pegasus, Cetus, and Eridanus.
CHAPTER VII
Pisces, Aries, Taurus, and the Northern Mars	117
The first double star ever discovered, the Pleiades and their photographic wonders, the Royal Family of the Sky, Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Perseus and Cepheus, Ursa Major, Camelopardalus, Ursa Minor, and the Pole Star.
CHAPTER VIII
Scenes on the Planets	139
Jupiter, its belts and its moons—Saturn, the ringed planet—Saturn's moons and Roche's limit—Mars and its white polar caps and so-called seas and continents—Venus and her atmosphere—The peculiar rotations of Venus and Mercury.
CHAPTER IX
The Mountains and Plains of the Moon and the Spectacles of the Sun	156
Peculiarities of the lunar landscapes—The so-called seas, the craters, the ring mountains, the inclosed plains, the mountain ranges, Tycho's mysterious streaks, and other lunar features described—How to view the sun and its spots.
CHAPTER X
Are There Planets Among the Stars?	183
Significance of Dr. See's observations—Why our telescopes do not show planets circling around distant suns—Reasons for thinking that such planets may exist—The bearing of stellar evolution on the question.
INDEX	193

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