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baran and the Pleiades look in the eastern sky. 4 t+ o THE PLEIADES x iN 8 \ _ \ ve \ * \ wz a \ a oe * ALDE BARAN HOR/Z ON Fic, 50. Aldebaran rises just a little north of east. Look up the time of rising in the list and then watch for the coming of the V-shaped cluster shown in the former cut. Fig. 51 shows how Alde- baran looks in the west just before setting. Remember that all groups of stars look different in the western sky than they do in the eastern. They ap- pear tilted at a different angle, just as is shown in the cuts of the big dipper around the north star. Aldebaran in the Western Sky. | Out of the 11 bright stars that we see you will find six of them clustered fairly close together. Fig. 52 shows them in the eastern sky about one hour after Sirius has risen. Pollux is one of the Heavenly Twins. The oth- er twin (Castor) ts shown just above Pollux, But there are many summer months "THE MarRINE KEVIEW ALDEBARAN * be, Ric; Sf, that you cannot see the above stars rise as 'shown on the cut because they rise during daylight. But look for them during the morning hours of August and September. On Oct. 1 the whole bunch can be seen in the east about midnight. * RS ake -* KALDEBARAN * POLLUX pe * BE TELGUE Si ' \ . * : 2 Ss * aah x 8 Wk RICEL i a \ Z Nice »* sk PROCYON * SIRIUS FIG. 02; Regulus. Regulus is at the end of a group of stars called the sickle. The sickle 1s part of the constellation Leo, shown below, and really resembles a sickle. It stands wp in the sky and looks very much like Fig. 53. The constellation Leo as it appears in the sky looks like Fig. 54. Leo means Lion. The ancient astronomers figured that this constellation resem- bled a lion. This constellation rises just a little north of east. Regulus cannot tbe used by lake navigators during August and the first part of September as it is above the horizon only in daylight: On Oct. 1 it rises about 2:30 a. m. 31 / (oe Ke PECULUS FIG. 5S, To find Regulus, range down from the dipper as shown in Fig. 55. This wiil not lead you direct to Regulus but near enough to find him, Measure off © about 40 degrees. This will land you *: Ye REGUL US Ho, os. on the back of the lion. During 1909 you might be puzzled by the appear- ance of a very bright star just below the constellation Leo. This ig the = planet Jupiter and he will gradually move away. oO ee ie bon z | | / / / / / | ' / et -- ae | Lee --~ 8 * Mee \ ne ¥ on / on Ni yk rectus. WG, 88,