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/ɪklˈɪptɪk/
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[ US /ɪˈkɫɪptɪk/ ]
[ US /ɪˈkɫɪptɪk/ ]
NOUN
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the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator
all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic
How To Use ecliptic In A Sentence
- Once you have located the sun on the ecliptic, simply align the sun with the eastern horizon and read its position using the almucantars, which are drawn every ten degrees.
- All this being laid down, the only thing remaining to settle chronology is to see through what star the colure of the equinoxes passes, and where it intersects at this time the ecliptic in the spring; and to discover whether some ancient writer does not tell us in what point the ecliptic was intersected in his time, by the same colure of the equinoxes. Letter XVII-On Infinites in Geometry, and Sir Isaac Newton’s Chronology
- There are also tables which give transformations between different coordinate systems on the celestial sphere, in particular allowing ecliptic coordinates to be transformed into equatorial coordinates.
- Where the ecliptic crosses the solstitial colure is the spot where the sun appears to be when it is farthest north of the equator, June 21st. A Field Book of the Stars
- Although the sun and moon both course through the band of the sky called the ecliptic, their orbits do not exactly coincide. Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 External Kalachakra
- The Oort cloud would have its inner disk at the ecliptic from the Kuiper belt. Planet-x.com.au » does every solar system have a Oort cloud?
- Nor do the planets escape alignment with the Moon: because they occupy a restricted band about the ecliptic, they, too, are frequently blotted out for a brief time.
- The nodical period is the period between two crossings of the ecliptic in the same direction.
- Abul Wafa determined accurately the obliquity of the ecliptic in 995 A.D. and calculated the variation in the moon's motion.
- One sees very well that a new astronomy was predicted in the build of that sky-confronting mind; for harmonic ratios, laws, and rhymes played in his spheral soul, galaxies and gravitations stretched deeper within, and systems climbed their flaming ecliptic. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860