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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
Heis maps all stars down to about magnitude 6.2 or 6.3. Gould gives the places of all stars to the seventh magnitude.
A.—Number of lucid stars in certain bright regions or patches of the Milky Way.
I.—Northern portion, from Heis.
| Position of patch. | Square degrees. |
Number of stars. | |||||
| R. A. | Dec. | ||||||
| 19h. 10m. | +35° | 60 | 21 | ||||
| 20h. 0m. | +37° | 25 | 11 | ||||
| 20h. 20m. | +47° | 20 | 11 | ||||
| 21h. 5m. | +45° | 12 | 4 | ||||
| 0h. 20m. | +60° | 25 | 9 | ||||
| 2h. 20m. | +55° | 60 | 16 | ||||
| 3h. 30m. | +36° | 32 | 7 | ||||
| 3h. 40m. | +44° | 43 | 12 | ||||
| Sums | 277 | 91 | |||||
II.—Southern portion, from Gould:
| Position | Area | Stars. | |||||
| 8h 4m | -47° | 10 | 14 | ||||
| 2h. 24m. | -44° | 9 | 7 | ||||
| 10h. 35m. | -58° | 12 | 19 | ||||
| 11h. 40m. | -62° | 10 | 11 | ||||
| 16h. 10m. | -53° | 7 | 7 | ||||
| 18h. 0m. | -28° | 25 | 9 | ||||
| 18h. 10m. | -18° | 8 | 5 | ||||
| 18h. 42m. | -8° | 16 | 5 | ||||
| Sums | 97 | 77 | |||||
B.—Number of lucid stars in the darker regions or patches of the Milky Way.
I.—Northern part, from Heis.
| Position. | Area. | ||||||
| H. A. | Dec. | Sq. Deg. | Stars. | ||||
| 21h. 0m. | +50 | 26 | 10 | ||||
| 22h. 0m. | +67 | 33 | 7 | ||||
| 22h. 25m. | +60 | 30 | 12 | ||||
| 0h. 0m. | +69 | 56 | 10 | ||||
| 4h. 0m. | +55 | 98 | 19 | ||||
| 4h. 20m. | +35 | 98 | 13 | ||||
| 6h. 15m. | +18 | 86 | 17 | ||||
| 6h. 12m. | + 4 | 48 | 9 | ||||
| Sums | 475 | 97 | |||||
