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let it out slowly,

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Now, let's get to the reading.

Tonight we're returning to a wonderful little book,

Astronomy for young folks by Isabel Martin Lewis A.M.

connected with the Nautical Almanac Office of the U.S. Naval Observatory, published by Duffielden Company, New York in 1922.

Let's pick up where we left off in our annual tour of the night sky with August. It was one of the

twelve labors of Hercules, the hero of Grecian mythology to vanquish the dragon that guarded the golden apples in the

garden of the Hesperities. Among the constellations for July, we found the large group of stars that represents the hero himself,

and this month we find just to the north of Hercules the head of Draco the dragon.

The foot of the hero rests upon the dragon's head, which is outlined by a group of four fairly bright stars

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