Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction.

Project Gutenberg's Half-hours with the Telescope, by Richard A. Proctor This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. Author: Richard A. Proctor Release Date: September 28, 2005 [EBook #16767] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE *** Produced by Jason Isbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net i HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE Being a popular guide to the use of the telescope as a means of amusement and instruction. BY Richard A. Proctor, B.A., F.R.A.S., Author of "Saturn and its System," Etc. With Illustrations on Stone and Wood. An undevout astronomer is mad: True, all things speak a God; but, in the small Men trace out Him: in great He seizes man. YOUNG. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1873. iiLondon: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross. Plate I. Fronticepeice Map I. The Sky Jan. 20, 10 P.M. Feb. 19, 8 P.M. Mar. 21, 6 P.M. Map II. The Sky Apr. 20, 10 P.M. May 21, 8 P.M. Jun. 21, 6 P.M. Map III. The Sky Jul. 22, 10 P.M. Aug. 23, 8 P.M. Sep. 23, 6 P.M. Map IV. The Sky Oct.