"Antares" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... each step, as it were, that the explorers made, fresh stars entered the field of their vision. The magnificent constellations of the southern sky shone resplendently. At the zenith glittered the splendid Antares in the Scorpion, and not far was Alpha Centauri, which is believed to be the nearest star to the terrestrial globe. Then, as the crater widened, appeared Fomalhaut of the Fish, the Southern Triangle, and lastly, nearly at the Antarctic Pole, the glittering Southern ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne
... evidence. Dense, white morning mists—the September mists—lie in the valleys and yield but slowly to the shafts of the rising sun. Flocks of feathered voyagers are shaping their course toward the south. Gold and crimson leaves grow more numerous along the lanes and in the woods. Antares, Altair and Vega, with the summer constellations, are passing farther towards the west, while before bedtime Fomalhaut may be seen at the mouth of the Southern Fish in the southeast and the creamy white Capella is leading up Auriga in the northeast. Between ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... the stars visible to the naked eye belong to this type. Generally they are rather faint, but we here find Betelgeuze, [alpha] Herculis, [beta] Pegasi, [alpha] Scorpii (Antares) and most variables of long period, which form a special sub-type Md, characterized by bright hydrogen lines together ...
— Lectures on Stellar Statistics • Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
... above the old crossing. The animals were made to swim and the luggage was conveyed in a hastily constructed skiff. The route was a desert one, about on the same line as that to be used by the proposed Arizona-Utah highway between Grand Wash and the present Santa Fe railroad station of Antares. Returning, Hamblin went as far south as Fort Verde, where Post Trader W.S. Head advanced, without money, provisions enough to last until the party arrived at the Colorado, south of ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock |
