Sky and Telescope Magazine

This item contains volume seven, issue three, number seventy-five of Sky and Telescope Magazine.

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$31008 os+ 491 or UIWD 009+1 83dd10 3711/7 1. 9040000 .08+ GONIW vsen . 370d HINON : +40°, Nath + 30° PLEIADES HYADES TAURUS ERIDANUS Acamare FIRST GALAXIES - 0°HORIZON SECOND . OPEN CLUSTERS o DORADO THIRO . GLOBULAR CLUSTERS * FOURTH . DIFFUSE NEBULAE FIFTH . South MILKY WAY BOUNDARIES VARIABLE JANUARY 30°HORIZON DEEP-SKY WONDERS 44', a larger more scattered group 11' in STARS FOR JANUARY diameter with 80 stars in the same range C ASSIOPEIA, although usually not of brightness. NGC 581, M103, 1h 26m, from latitudes 30° to 50° north, at 9 p.m. considered a hunting ground for clus- +60° 11', hardly deserves the listing in and 8 p.m. local time, on the 7th and 23rd ters and not possessing any of the more the Messier catalogue. Its diameter is 7' of the month, respectively. The 40° north interesting ones, is actually full of the and its 60 stars run from 11th to fainter smaller galactic clusters. Even the limited than 13th magnitude. All of the above horizon is a solid circle; the others are space of Norton's Star Atlas finds room may be easily located on the plates of the circles, too, but dashed in part. For the for about 17, and the NGC catalogue lists Ross Atlas (photographic prints available year 1948, these simplified charts replace several times as many. from Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, our usual white-on-black maps, which may Try NGC 654, 467, 1h 37m, + 61° 23', Wis.), although their photographic images be consulted in issues of prior years when a tolerably rich but loose cluster, 5' diam- there are hardly a guide to their telescopic eter, with over 50 stars from 9th to 13th aspect when viewed with the eye. information on deep-sky wonders and less magnitude. NGC 663, 316, 1h 39m, +60° WALTER SCOTT HOUSTON conspicuous constellations is desired. January, 1948, SKY AND TELESCOPE 81

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