The River (_Eridanus_) occupies the southeasterly sky. The Dove and Great Dog (_Columba_ and _Canis Major_) are rising in the southeast. The glorious _Orion_ has now come well into view, though not yet so upright as we could wish a knightly hunter to be. He treads on the Hare (_Lepus_), and faces the Bull (_Taurus_) above.
Due east we find the Crab (_Cancer_), and Little Dog (_Canis Minor_) low down; the Twins (_Gemini_) higher; above them the Charioteer (_Auriga_), with the bright _Capella_, and _Perseus_ the Rescuer nearing the point overhead. In the mid-space between _Perseus, Auriga_, and the two Bears, we find the ridiculous constellation _Camelopardus_, or the Giraffe.
[Illustration: MAP XII. NIGHT SKY.--NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.
At 11 o'clock: Nov. 7. | |At 9 o'clock: Dec. 7. At 10-1/2 o'clock: Nov. 14.|At 9-1/2 o'clock:|At 8-1/2 o'clock: Dec. 15. At 10 o'clock: Nov. 22. | Nov. 30. |At 8 o'clock: Dec. 23.
Stars of the first magnitude are eight-pointed; second magnitude, six-pointed; third magnitude, five-pointed; fourth magnitude (a few), four-pointed; fifth magnitude (very few), three-pointed. For star names refer to page 4.]
End of Project Gutenberg's Half-Hours with the Stars, by Richard A. Proctor