Half-Hours with the Stars / A Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations - Richard A. Proctor

At 11 o'clock: July 7.		At 9 o'clock: Aug. 7.
At 10½ o'clock: July 14.	At 9½ o'clock: July 30.	At 8½ o'clock: Aug. 14.
At 10 o'clock: July 22.		At 8 o'clock: Aug. 22.

Stars of the first magnitude are eight-pointed; second magnitude, six-pointed; third magnitude, five-pointed; fourth magnitude (a few), four-pointed; fifth magnitude (very few), three-pointed. For star names refer to page 4.

MAP IX. NIGHT SKY.—AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.

At 11 o'clock: Aug. 7.		At 9 o'clock: Sept. 6.
At 10½ o'clock: Aug. 14.	At 9½ o'clock: Aug. 29.	At 8½ o'clock: Sept. 14.
At 10 o'clock: Aug. 22.		At 8 o'clock: Sept. 21.

NIGHT SKY.—AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.

The Great Bear (Ursa Major) is low down, between northwest and north, the Pointers (α and β) directed slantingly upward toward the Pole. A line from the Pole Star (α of the Little Bear, Ursa Minor) to the Guardians of the Pole (β and γ), is in the position of the minute hand of a clock 12 minutes before an hour. Between the Great Bear and the Little Bear run the stars of the Dragon (Draco), round the Little Bear toward the north, thence toward the northwest, where we see the head of the Dragon high up, its two bright eyes, β and γ, directed toward Hercules, which occupies the western mid-heaven. Above Hercules is Lyra, the Lyre, with the bright steel-blue star Vega high up toward the point overhead. Right overhead is the Swan (Cygnus).