ecliptic

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• They were on a ship a long way from Neptune, hanging in space above the ecliptic. METAPLANETARY
• The orbit of the earth (or the circle which the sun seems to describe round the earth), is called the ecliptic, which is divided into twelve equal parts, called signs, and are distinguished by the following names and marks, [again, the symbols for the signs can be seen in the A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
• The tidal solutions obtained from SLR and satellite altimetry are used to compute the secular changes in the Moon's orbit elements and the Earth rotation rate in the ecliptic reference system.
• The ecliptic is the band in the sky through which the sun, moon and planets course. Taking the Kalachakra Initiation ��� 3 External Kalachakra
• The minor planet moves around the Sun in the ecliptic plane, never coming inside the orbit of the Earth.
• The Moon's Nodes are points in space representing the points where the moon's orbit around the earth crosses the ecliptic.
• In the days prior to GPS-led apparati that were brought to market in the ancient, early '90s, astro-purists with an interest in locating various objects from within the observable astronomical inventory would have to understand basic algebra as a gateway to leverage a coordinate system (celestrial, equatorial, ecliptical, galactic, etc.). Cool Tools
• In the following figure, P is the pole of the earth; E the pole of the ecliptic; L the pole of the lunar orbit; V the mean position of the pole of the vortex at the time; the angle  ♈ EL the true longitude of the pole of the lunar orbit, equal to the _true_ longitude of the ascending node Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
• An armillary sphere basically allows you to find the position of an object in the sky in relation to the celestial equator, (equatorial AS or 赤道经纬仪) or the ecliptic (the path of the sun across the sky) (ecliptical AS or 黄道经纬仪). Archive 2007-02-01
• Only Shakspeare was endowed with that healthy equilibrium of nature whose point of rest was midway between the imagination and the understanding, -- that perfectly unruffled brain which reflected all objects with almost inhuman impartiality, -- that outlook whose range was ecliptical, dominating all zones of human thought and action, -- that power of verisimilar conception which could take away _Richard III_ from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858