Astronomy for Amateurs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Astronomy for Amateurs

What greater delight can be conceived, on a fine spring evening,' at the hour when the crescent moon is shining in the West amid the last glimmer Of twilight, than the contemplation Of that grand and silent spec tacle of the stars stepping forth in sequence in the vast Heavens? All sounds of life die out upon the earth, the last notes of the sleepy birds have sunk away, the Angelus of the church hard by has rung the Close of day. But if life is arrested around us, we may seek it in the Heavens. These incandescing orbs are so many points of interrogation suspended above our heads in the inaccessible depths of space. Gradually they mul tiply. -there is Venus, the white star of the shepherd.

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