azimuth

How To Use azimuth In A Sentence

• We want to move forty-five arc minutes in the opposite direction we moved last time, in altitude, altitude being jargon for a telescope’s up and down motion, as opposed to azimuth, which is movement from side to side. A Grand and Bold Thing
• He himself, however, by much more exact observations, with an excellent altazimuth, reduced the alleged error from 20 minutes to only 4-1/2, or to 9-40ths of its formerly supposed value. Myths and Marvels of Astronomy
• On the third floor of the Paris Observatory Cassini had laid out a planisphere, a map of the World using an azimuthal projection with the North Pole at the centre.
• A hydraulic fracture is generally expected to propagate in a vertical plane in a direction perpendicular to the minimum horizontal stress azimuth.
• It is some - times called the azimuth, bearing, or heading. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• Aircraft traffic was observed moving in the same general direction during the night, but generally at a much higher azimuth from the observers' position.
• A simple, fast and precise method of adopting the GPS to calibrate radar azimuth and elevation is expatiated and widely applied in radar calibration.
• Third, changes in the azimuthal orientation distribution of the probes around the symmetry axis cannot usually be deduced from steady-state polarized fluorescence measurements.
• As each shot was made - with the same camera, lens, and film type - I also noted the date and time and used a compass to find the direction in azimuth that the camera was pointing at the time the photo was taken.
• Based on that pulsed information, the missile's guidance electronics fire a series of small squibs on the forward attitude control motor to push the missile into the correct azimuth to impact the target.