ecliptic in English

noun
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a great circle on the celestial sphere representing the sun's apparent path during the year, so called because lunar and solar eclipses can occur only when the moon crosses it.
An eclipse occurs only if the Moon crosses the ecliptic when very close to either conjunction or opposition, respectively producing solar and lunar eclipses.
adjective
1
of an eclipse or the ecliptic.
Lunar eclipses occur at the time of a Full Moon, and when the Moon is near one of the nodes of intersection between its orbit and the ecliptic plane.

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1. The quotient represents signs of the ecliptic .

2. It is also coupled with ecliptic constellation, especially attractive.

3. Five bright planets move among the stars near the ecliptic.

4. Finally, it discusses some problems about longitude difference of ecliptic.

5. Spread out plane of the ecliptic are Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Saturn.

6. All of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic.

7. 7 Celestial equator is not the same circle as degrees ecliptic and not.

8. Cepheus lies north of the Ecliptic which is different to the Celestial Equator

9. After discovering Pluto, Tombaugh continued to search the ecliptic for other distant objects.

10. The Ascendant is the point of intersection between the Eastern horizon and the ecliptic

11. On the astrolabe, an off - centered circle represents the orbit of the sun - the ecliptic.

12. The ecliptic is actually the apparent path of the Sun throughout the course of a year.

13. Either of two diametrically opposite points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic.

14. The sun naturally appears to us to traverse the ecliptic in the same period of time.

15. Is ecliptic mother - in - law from which technology of advanced cotton spin acquires over there the nation?

16. These flow lines become tighter at the Sun's middle, so Planet X almost aligns Horizontally just under the Ecliptic.

17. They called the apparent path of the sun the ecliptic and divided it into 12 zones, or segments.

18. A point on the ecliptic that rises on the eastern horizon at a particular moment and changes Explanation of Ascendents

19. A point on the ecliptic that rises on the eastern horizon at a particular moment and changes Explanation of Ascendants

20. Ascendant definition is - the point of the ecliptic or degree of the zodiac that rises above the eastern horizon at any moment

21. Observed Asteroidal meteoroids are predicted to have inclinations close to the ecliptic poles, at about ±90º, in the apex direction

22. In the Solar System, the planets and the Sun lie roughly within the same flat plane, known as the plane of the ecliptic.

23. Capricornus Constellation the Sea Goat, is an ecliptic constellation laying between constellation Sagittarius and constellation Aquarius.It spans 25 degrees longitude in the zodiac sign Aquarius

24. Steps of Selecting Auspicious Days Give priority to ecliptic Auspicious days and then select as per your Bazi and filter out the folk inAuspicious days.

25. In Western astrology, Astrological signs are the twelve 30° sectors of the ecliptic, starting at the vernal equinox (one of the intersections of the ecliptic with the celestial equator), also known as the First Point of Aries.The order of the Astrological signs is Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.

26. The Sun, in its apparent motion along the ecliptic, crosses the celestial equator at these points, one from south to north, the other from north to south.

27. The Celestial Equator and the Ecliptic are set at an angle of # degrees in the sky. The points where they intersect are the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes

28. The first was taken in Catawba County North Carolina on April 27 at sunrise by Michael. Here the Second Sun is rising ahead of the Sun along the line of the Ecliptic.

29. It is about 20 seconds longer near a solstice when the projection of the Sun's apparent motion along the ecliptic onto the celestial equator causes the Sun to move through a greater angle than usual.

30. Capricornus (kăprĬkôr´nəs) [Lat.,=the goat horn], inconspicuous southern constellation [1] lying on the ecliptic [2] (the sun's apparent path through the heavens) between Sagittarius and Aquarius; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac [3].

31. (cf., the Aristotelian doctrines and the Aristarchian heresy.) The Ptolemaic System Observations • The apparent rotation of the Celestial Sphere • The annual motion of the Sun along the ecliptic • The monthly motion of the Moon The lunar phases and the synodic month

32. However, the fact that the book lists most of the constellations north of the ecliptic in the same order as Ptolemy's Almagest (written in the 2nd century) has led many to believe that a more recent Hyginus or Pseudo-Hyginus created the text.

33. Autumnal equinox, two moments in the year when the Sun is exactly above the Equator and day and night are of equal length; also, either of the two points in the sky where the ecliptic (the Sun’s annual pathway) and the celestial equator intersect