"Argo, exalted for that daring feat
To fix in heaven her shape with stars."
—Wordsworth.
But even the portion that was lifted to the sky is so large that astronomers, for convenience, have divided it into three parts,—Carina, the Keel; Puppis, the Stern; and Vela, the Sail. The beautiful star Canopus lies on the Keel.
Triangulum and Aries, traveling beneath Andromeda, rise in late September and October and pass the meridian in the early evenings during the first weeks of December.
THE PARADE OF THE ZENITH CONSTELLATIONS.
During the spring and summer months these clearly marked constellations parade slowly across the dome of the heavens. Leo, the Lion, may be easily located beneath the Big Dipper.
CHAPTER VI
THE PARADE OF THE ZENITH CONSTELLATIONS
LEO, THE LION