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CELESTIAL POLE

one of the two points at which the earth's axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere. The celestial pole is important as a reference point in the equatorial coordinate system; the celestial meridian passes through it, as do the hour circles of the stars. The polestar (see Polaris) lies within 0.5° of the north celestial pole. Although there is no bright star near the south celestial pole, the Southern Cross (see Crux) points directly to it. The altitude of the celestial pole in an observer's hemisphere is equal to the observer's latitude on the earth.

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books on: Celestial Pole - 502 results

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An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics
Book by Theodore E. Sterne; Interscience Publishers, 1960
Subjects:	Celestial Mechanics
...is the center of the sun; XOY is the plane of the ecliptic; OX points to the vernal equinox and OZ toward the north ecliptic pole N.E.P. . The objects Figure 2. orbit plane intersects the ecliptic plane in the line of nodes, ON , and if N is where...

Reginald Pole, Cardinal of England
Book by W. Schenk; Longmans, Green and Co, 1950
Subjects:	Cardinals--Biography, Church And State--England--History--16th Century, England--Church History--16th Century, Great Britain--History--Henry Viii, 1509-1547--Biography, Great Britain--History--Mary I, 1553-1558--Biography, Pole, Reginald--1500-1558
...is no reason to doubt that Pole really held some of the other...needed reform, and here, Pole insists, the priests and other...confirming and stabling of this celestial doctrine stands chiefly in...conclude, knew and shared Poles concern for Church reform...bring them about. Starkey left Pole towards the end of 1534 and...

The Supreme Gods of the Bosporan Kingdom: Celestial Aphrodite and the Most High God
Book by Yulia U. Ustinova; Brill, 1999
Subjects:	Aphrodite (Greek Deity)--Cult--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History, Gods, Greek--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History, Gods--Kerch Strait Region (Ukraine And Russia)--History, Kerch Strait (Ukraine And Russia)--Religion
...leafless tree, and to the other side, a pole with a horse skull on it. The tree is...ceremony (Ivanov 1974: 87-89). The pole with the horses skull testifies to the...left hip. An- other gorytos hangs on a pole near the naiskos. This detail may be very...

The Celestial Twins: Poetry and Music through the Ages
Book by H. T. Kirby-Smith; University of Massachusetts Press, 1999
Subjects:	Lyric Poetry--History And Criticism, Music And Literature
Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time between pole and tropic, When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless...

North Pole Legacy: Black, White & Eskimo
Book by S. Allen Counter; University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
Subjects:	Greenland--Genealogy, Henson, Anaukaq--1906-, Henson, Matthew Alexander--1866-1955, Inuit--Greenland--Biography, Inuit--Greenland--Genealogy, Peary, Kali--1906-, Peary, Robert E--(Robert Edwin)--1856-1920
...intent on only one thing: reaching the Pole. To call his efforts to obtain a lot of...that Peary was attempting to navigate the Pole without any celestial references for longitude. His celestial reference was almost constantly available...

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The Transatlantic Romance of Celestial Motion: Revolutionary Objects and Fictional Historiography
Journal article by Robert Lawrence Gunn; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects:	Astronomy--Portrayals, Romance fiction--Criticism and interpretation, Romance literature--Criticism and interpretation, Romances (Fiction)--Criticism and interpretation
...the physical revolutions of celestial bodies and the smaller orbital...Directs an atom, as it rules the pole, Reigns through all worlds...so fond was Paine of this celestial trope that, in 1794, he founded...This political troping of celestial motion reflected wider transatlantic...

Medieval Arab Navigation on the Indian Ocean: Latitude Determinations
Journal article by Alfred Clark; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 113, 1993
Subjects:	Indian Ocean--Discovery, exploration, etc., Latitude--Measurement, Nautical astronomy--History
...probably in the sense of "an 8-finger Pole Star altitude," for example. 3...rotation, it points directly toward the celestial north pole (and south pole), and therefore changes the position of those poles with respect to the "fixed" stars...

A Brief History of Beiji (Northern Culmen), with an Excursus on the Origin of the Character Di
Journal article by David W. Pankenier; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 124, 2004
Subjects:	Beijing, China--Analysis, Beijing, China--Cultural policy, Beijing, China--History, Beijing, China--Social aspects, Charismatic movements, Spiritual life--Analysis
...of the career of the north-pole from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age. MIGRATION OF THE POLE Precession of the equinoxes...culture, the inconstancy of the poles location ought to have been...Given the early focus on the celestial pole in early Chinese astronomy...

Alhacen on Refraction: a Critical Edition, with English Translation and Commentary, of Book 7 of Alhacen's de Aspectibus
Journal article; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 100, 2010
Subjects:	Light, Studies
...location with respect to the horizon affect the apparent size of celestial bodies. 7.47-51 PROPOSITION 19: When viewed at zenith, a celestial body or an interval between celestial bodies appears diminished because of atmospheric refraction...

Of Bears & Bearings: Paule Marshall's Diverse Daughters
Journal article by Moira Ferguson; MELUS, Vol. 24, 1999
Subjects:	African American women--Portrayals, depictions, etc., American literature--African American authors, Daughters (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Marshall, Paule--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Race relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Racism in literature--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...surround Ursas name. Polaris, pole-star, or stella polaris...for a long time to mark the pole--which would have rendered the "heavenly pole" a fixed entity whereas it...within one degree of the north celestial pole.(7) Ursa Minors location...

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magazine articles on: Celestial Pole - 51 results

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Stairways to Heaven
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 102, June 1993
Subjects:	Architecture, Historic buildings & sites, India, Jai Singh, Sawai II, Observatories
...the sky. In this system, an imaginary "celestial sphere" with the stars painted on its...coordinates are an extension of the earths. The pole of the earth pierces the celestial sphere at the celestial pole, and the earths latitude and longitude...

Turn, Turn, Turn
Magazine article by Donald Goldsmith; Natural History, Vol. 115, December 2006
Subjects:	Astronomy, Changes, Orbits, Seasons, Summer, Sun, Winter
...projection of the Earths north pole on the sky), Polaris...have taken their turn as celestial beacons tor the stargazers...through the north and south poles, does not stand upright...Earths North and South Poles-the extended ends of...nowhere near the "north celestial pole," the point that lies...

All Is Calm, All Is Bright
Magazine article by Shannon J. Odelberg; The Humanist, Vol. 71, November 2011
Subjects:	Imaging systems--Methods, Imaging--Methods, Photography--Personal narratives, Stars--Appreciation, Stars--Portrayals
...counterclockwise circle around the north celestial pole (approximately defined by the...to capture natures geologic and celestial clocks in a single photograph...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Turning abruptly from celestial wonders to the immediate task at...

Heavens Above: The Night Sky Offers Boundless Opportunities for Photographers. and You Don't Need the Earthbound Equivalent of the Hubble Space Telescope to Take Photos-Just Clear Skies and a Little Bit of Patience
Magazine article by Keith Wilson; Geographical, Vol. 80, December 2008
Subjects:	Aerial photography--Methods, Nature photography--Methods, Photography, Aerial--Methods
...arcs around the north and south celestial poles respectively. Properly executed...coverage in the frame to include the celestial pole as well as the horizon with its...aurora australis, these colourful celestial lights can hang like curtains...

Name Dropping: Want to Be a Star? If You Think That a Star Can Be Named after You, and That Once One Is, It's All Official, Think Again. the Whole Commercial "Star Registry" Charade Is Awkward for Astronomers
Magazine article by Philip Plait; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, September 2006
Subjects:	Astronomers--Ethical aspects, Astronomers--Evaluation, Astronomers--Research, Astronomical research--Forecasts and trends, Stars--Discovery and exploration, Stars--Names
...appears to follow Ursa Major, the Big Bear, around the celestial pole. My favorite of all are Libras Zubeneschamali and Zubenelgenubi...Durchmusterung catalog, using stars coordinates (a celestial version of latitude and longitude) to designate them...

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ESCAPE FROM LIMBO; It's a Celestial No-Man's-Land Whose Occupants Are Denied the Pleasures of Heaven. So Why Is the Pope Abolishing the First Circle of Hell?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 6, 2006
ESCAPE FROM LIMBO; Its a Celestial No-Mans-Land Whose Occupants Are Denied the Pleasures of Heaven...the same name, where no extremity of your clothes can touch the pole). ORIGINALLY, the early Church Fathers in the years after Christs...

Daring Trio Flies Blind to North Pole
Newspaper article by Christopher Pala; The Washington Times, April 30, 2001
...Daring trio flies blind to North Pole by Christopher Pala RESOLUTE...last week to fly to the North Pole in a small, single-engine plane using dead reckoning and celestial navigation only, rather than...aircraft. He flew one to the Pole in 1987 using an experimental...

Terps Bore Way Past Clemson
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 26, 2003
...the earths rotation that caused a periodic variation of the astronomical latitude (defined by the altitude of the celestial pole) measured from points on the earths surface. This discovery, which had evaded the greatest figures in mathematics...

"2012" Spurs Interest in Mayan Calendar
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 10, 2009
...scientific evidence to suggest the Earth rsquo;s magnetic poles will flip, California will slide into the sea or a rogue...countless Web sites, some of the writers predict solar storms, a pole shift, galactic alignment and other celestial chaos will unleash carnage of biblical proportions upon the...

Our New Eye on the Sky; Planetarium That Will Fill the Gap Left by Tussauds
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 6, 2006
...resembles a cone tilted at 51.5 degrees, the latitude of London, to point towards the Pole Star, and sliced at right angles to align with the celestial equator. The theatre inside will give visitors a realistic view of the night sky and then...

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encyclopedia articles on: Celestial Pole - 21 results

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Celestial Pole
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CELESTIAL POLE one of the two points at which the earths axis of rotation intersects the celestial sphere . The celestial pole is important as a reference point in the equatorial coordinate...

Celestial Meridian
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CELESTIAL MERIDIAN vertical circle passing through the north celestial pole and an observers zenith . It is an axis in the altazimuth coordinate system . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...

Equatorial Coordinate System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...positions of stars or other celestial objects on the celestial...called the celestial poles; the north celestial pole is directly above the...and the south celestial pole directly above the earths South Pole. The great circle on...between the celestial poles is called the celestial...

Time , Sequential Arrangement of All Events
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The meridian is the great circle on the celestial sphere running through the north celestial pole and the observers zenith; the passage of...the plane of the orbit is inclined to the celestial equator by 23 1 / 2 . Hence the eastward...

Hour Circle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...axis in the equatorial coordinate system . The hour circle of a celestial body is the great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through both the body and the north celestial pole. A stars hour circle is used in determining its right ascension...

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