Stars of the southern skies - M. A. Orr

LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
FOURTH AVENUE & 30TH STREET, NEW YORK
BOMBAY, CALCUTTA, AND MADRAS 1915

TO
MISS MARY PROCTOR

CONTENTS

chap.		page
	THE GREEK LETTERS	[ x]
	INTRODUCTION	[xi]
I.	THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTH: MODERN GROUPS	[ 1]
II.	THE CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTH: ANCIENT GROUPS	[ 6]
III.	THE TEN BRIGHTEST STARS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE	[15]
IV.	STARS OF DIFFERENT AGES	[23]
V.	SOME NEAR NEIGHBOURS	[32]
VI.	DOUBLE AND MULTIPLE STARS	[35]
VII.	THE ASTONISHING STAR, ETA ARGŪS	[40]
VIII.	MIRA, THE WONDERFUL STAR	[46]
IX.	ECLIPSING STARS	[51]
X.	SHORT-PERIOD VARIABLE STARS	[54]
XI.	IRREGULAR AND DOUBTFUL VARIABLES	[57]
XII.	STAR-CLUSTERS	[59]
XIII.	GLOBULAR STAR-CLUSTERS	[66]
XIV.	NEBULAE	[72]
XV.	OTHER TYPES OF NEBULAE	[80]
XVI.	THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN	[85]
XVII.	THE MILKY WAY	[88]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

	page
MAP OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE	[to face Title]
THE OLD CONSTELLATION FIGURES OF
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE	[to face page 6]
THE ARCHER	[page 11]
From a Babylonian Boundary Stone now in the British Museum
THE STAR-CLUSTER, 47 TOUCANI	[to face page 68]
From Sir John Herschel’s drawing
THE MILKY WAY IN SCORPIO, LUPUS, AND ARA	[to face page 88]
Photographed at Hanover, Cape Colony, by Bailey and Schultz

THE GREEK LETTERS