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Let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight we're returning to a marvelous little book of science. Astronomy for young folks by

Isabel Martin Lewis AM connected with the Nautical Almanac Office of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Copyright 1922 by Duffielden Company, New York.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Chapter 14.

Stars of the Southern Hemisphere As one travel... the southern hemisphere.

As one travel southward from the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere into the tropics,

our familiar circumpolar constellations sink lower and lower in the northern heavens, and strange and unfamiliar star groups rise gradually above the southern horizon.

If we make our southward journey in the winter months, the first of the southern constellations to come fully into view is the small

...