Find the Big Dipper high in the northeast and use the curve of its handle to go "arc to Arcturus," locating the bright star in Boötes due east. Now go diagonally down to the east-northeast ...

and [ully three times as bright as Arcturus. Three stars in the southern half of the heavens-Sirius, Oanopus and Alpha Centuri - exceed Vega in apparent brightness; but only the first is visible ...