This page has been validated.
PLEASURES OF THE TELESCOPE.
475
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
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/PSM_V46_D491_Wonders_of_the_night_sky_map_6.jpg/500px-PSM_V46_D491_Wonders_of_the_night_sky_map_6.jpg)
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-