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PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE.
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have a far more satisfactory view of it with the four-inch. The components are of the sixth, seventh, and eighth magnitudes, distances 1·5", p. 122°, and 8·7", p. 304°. A magnifying power which

Map No. 6.

just suffices clearly to separate the disks of the two nearer stars makes this a fine sight. A beautiful contrast of colors belongs to the double star 14, but unfortunately the star is at present very close, the distance between its sixth and seventh magnitude com-