An introduction to astronomy: designed as a text-book for the use of students in college. By Denison Olmsted ...

COS'Tl:.LATIONS. 27'7
ilitiude, called i.AfltL s, and somettimes thle i art of tihe &ol'pwion ('w ASCO0iio0nis). It is of a red color, restemblilng tlhe
planlt Mtars. South and cast of thlis, a succession of not less
than nline briglt stars sweep round in a scmicirclc, terminatinlo
in s\everal sm all statrs forminl g tlle sting of the Scorpion. Thl
tail of tile figure extends into th}e'Milky Way.
SAGIvxrrAutus (thce.Alcill). l1Cen (legrees eastward of the
Scorpion's tail, on the easternl margin of the MAilky Way, Wo
come to the bow of Sagittarius, conisi.sting of three stars about
60 apart, the middle one being the brighlC st, and situated in
the bend of the bow, while a fot rth star, 4~ westward l of it,
constitutes tlhe arrow. ThI'e arclier is represented by tile figure
of a Centaur (lhalf horse and half manl), and proceeding about
ten degrees east firomt tle bo\, we come to a collection of seven
or eighlt stars of the sceond and third nagnlitudes, whicll lie in
the ullllall or uppller part of the figul-e.
(AlrIc'NUvs (teil (GoxA'), representedtl witlt the ]lead of a goat
and the tail oft' fish, comes next to Sagittarius, about 20~ eastw<ard of thte group tlhat form tlhe upper portions of that constellattion. Two stars of the seonld lmagnitude, a on tli norttl,
and:3 on the south, 3 apart, constlitute the ]lead of Capricornlsll, w\ile a collectiol of stars of tlhe third magnitude, lyingl
200 souttheast of these form the tail.
AcUt{nus (tfhe Wvrmlat RlhxEtAi;at) is closely in contact w\it]
t.he tail of Capricormis, ilnecdiately north of whlich, at t]he
(istilance of 1.(, is tie western shloultler (:3), and f10l flurther
east is the eastern shloulder (t) of Aquarius. About 30 southctast of c. is y A'quarii, whriclh, torethelr with t1he other two,
~makes anl acute triangle, of which 3 fobrms thle vertex. In thlo
eastern armn of Aquarius are iound four stars, wvlich1 togetller
make the figure Y, the open plart bcing westwarld, or toward
the shoullcers of tihe constellation. Aquariui ranges a nearly
300 fiom north to south, being nearly blisectel by thle ecliptic.
I1)s(c1:s (tihe l'msin,:s). Irllree figlurles of titis kindt, at a great
distance apart, two north and one south of the ecliptic, coinpose tllis constellation. T11e Southern Fish, _viseis -A1ad-ai,,
otlherwise called.,maiz/taul, lies directly bellow tlte feet of.Aquarius, andl being the only coinspicuous star in that part of
tle }healvcns, is muuth used in astronomical imeasurements. It
is 30' southl of tle cquatolr.