Just on the horizon is Vega, scintillating brilliantly.

Overhead is the brilliant Capella, near which the Milky Way is seen passing down to the horizon on either side towards the quarters S.S.E.and N.N.W.
For the present our business is with the southern heavens, however.
Facing the south, we see a brilliant array of stars, Sirius unmistakeably overshining the rest.

Orion is shining in full glory, his leading brilliant, Betelgeuse[2] being almost exactly on the meridian, and also almost exactly half way between the horizon and the zenith.

In Plate 2 is given a map of this constellation and its neighbourhood.
Let us first turn the tube on Sirius.

It is easy to get him in the field without the aid of a finder.