DECLINATION

in astronomy, one of the coordinates in the equatorial coordinate system. The declination of a celestial body is its angular distance north or south of the celestial equator measured along its hour circle.

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books on: Declination  - 1034 results

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A Regiment for the Sea: And Other Writings on Navigation
Book by William Bourne, E. G. R. Taylor; 1963
Subjects: Navigation--Early Works To 1800, Navigation--Tables
...particularly a four-year table of the suns declination day by day. Towards the close of the...London, 1561 . work out the suns declination from his place in the zodiac as Cortes...requires the use of the Table of Solar Declinations. He gives the warning, which very few...
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Mathematical Instrumentation in Fourteenth-Century Egypt and Syria: The Illustrated Treatise of Najm Al-Dein Al-Meirsri
Book by Francois Charette; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Astrolabes--Egypt--History, Astrolabes--Syria--History, Quadrants (Astronomical Instruments)--Egypt--History, Quadrants (Astronomical Instruments)--Syria--History, Sundials--Egypt--History, Sundials--Syria--History
...are not in the direc- tion of their declinations (and which are) on the side facing...opposite direction than that of their declination, on the side facing the earth 349...Part IV Appendices A Table of declinations and equations 355 B Najm al-Dins...
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Science for the Citizen: A Self-Educator Based on the Social Background of Scientific Discovery
Book by Lancelot Hogben, J. F. Horrabin; Alfred A. Knopf, 1938
Subjects: Civilization, Science, Science--History
...sun and moon depend partly on their declinations, as explained in Chapter II, and are...and its complement is now called the declination of the star. Thus...Z.D. of Pole -- Z.D. of star Declination = 90 -- N.P.D...
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Astronomy: A Revision of Young's Manual of Astronomy - Vol. 1
Book by Henry Norris Russell, Raymond Smith Dugan, John Quincy Stewart; Ginn, 1926
Subjects: Astronomy, Solar System
...those connecting right ascension and declination with altitude and azimuth, and, in the...Longitude, Time, Right Ascension, Declination, and Azimuth Position of a Heavenly...Telescope 74 Preparing to attach the Declination Axis to the Polar Axis 74 FIGURE...
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Principles of Field and Mining Geology
Book by James Donald Forrester; J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1946
Subjects: Geology--Field Work, Mining Geology
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journal articles on: Declination  - 111 results

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Understanding Federal Prosecutorial Declinations: An Empirical Analysis of Predictive Factors
Journal article by Michael Edmund O'Neill; American Criminal Law Review, Vol. 41, 2004
Subjects: Judicial review--Laws, regulations and rules, Prosecution--Management, U.S. attorneys--Powers and duties
Understanding Federal Prosecutorial Declinations: An Empirical Analysis of Predictive...of an empirical analysis of collected declination data from federal prosecutors. These...Section A notes the general trends in declination and places them within the larger context...
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The Screening/bargaining Tradeoff
Journal article by Ronald Wright, Marc Miller; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of--Management, Plea bargaining--Evaluation, Pleas (Criminal procedure)--Management, Prosecution--Management
...screening leads to relatively high rates of declination (that is, refusals to prosecute a case...screening principles to insist on more declinations of cases referred to the office, the...Richard Frase studied in some detail the declination practices of federal prosecutors in...
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Determining the Interdependence of Historical Astronomical Tables
Journal article by Glen Van Brummelen, Kenneth Butler; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 92, 1997
Subjects: Ancient astronomy, Astronomy, Ancient, Statistics (Data)--Usage, Statistics--Usage
...tabulated elsewhere. For example, the solar declination function ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED...celestial equator. A tabulator of the declination function presumably would use the same...and three hypothetical tables of the declination function. The question to be posed is...
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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
...Colatitude); the Meridian Angle; and the Declination (90 |degrees~ -- Polar Distance). "Declination," the term used in U.S. Navy tables, strictly...intervals of 1 |degree~ latitude, 30 of declination up to 29 |degrees~ and at selected intervals...
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Strategic Behavior and Prosecutorial Agenda Setting in United States Attorneys' Offices: the Role of U.s. Attorneys and Their Assistants
Journal article by Todd Lochner; Justice System Journal, Vol. 23, 2002
Subjects: Attorneys, Behavior, Department of Justice, Prosecutions
...directs attention to the formulation of declination policies and the ways in which U.S...restructuring office organization and modifying declination policies, reassigning assistants to...Many offices also did not have a formal declination policy-i.e., a set of written or unwritten...
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magazine articles on: Declination  - 32 results

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North by Northwest: The Planet's Wandering Magnetic Poles Help Reveal History of Earth and Humans
Magazine article by Sid Perkins; Science News, Vol. 172, December 22, 2007
Subjects: Earth--Magnetic properties, Earth--Natural history, Geomagnetic poles--Properties, Geomagnetic poles--Social aspects, Magnetic pole--Properties, Magnetic pole--Social aspects, Navigation--Methods, Paleomagnetism--Usage
...certain angle, a process commonly known as declination. Thats because a compass isnt attracted...the North Star. Their measurements of declination, along with those made by seafaring...astronomical observatories, was that declination varied through time. Suddenly, they...
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To Recuse to Not Recuse
Magazine article by Jamie Dettmer; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, July 15, 1996
Subjects: Conflict of interests (Attorneys)--Political aspects, Conflict of interests (Public office)--Analysis, Government attorneys--Investigations, Napolitano, Janet--Investigations
...Napolitano cited as her reasons for the declination that the case would require several...not recused herself and had decided on declination -- a decision that struck more than...in the US. attorneys grounds for the declination. She noted: "Of course, US is a difficult...
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The Earth and Stars in the Lunar Sky
Magazine article by William C. Keel; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 31, July 2007
Subjects: Apollo spacecraft--Research, Conspiracy theories--Evaluation, Lunar flights--Research, Moon exploration--Research, Moon--Discovery and exploration, Moon--Research, Space flight to the moon--Research
...ascension twenty-one hours fifteen minutes, declination -15degees 16, near the boundary between...these coordinates--right ascension and declination--are analogous to longitude and latitude...an agreed reference direction, while declination is in the usual angular units of degrees...
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For Safe Profits, Trade a Delayed Reaction
Magazine article by Richard L. Muehlberg; Futures, Vol. 38, November 2009
Subjects: Futures trading, Investment policy, Profits, United States
...intraday price channel, while an optimum short opportunity is a fast bear market made prominent by the narrowness and 45-degree declination of its intraday price channel. "Trade an intraday hook to safe profits" (September 2009) presents the idea that an optimum...
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Whirling in Stone: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral; Richard Cork Goes Down a Chalk Pit to Assess the Sculpture of Tony Cragg
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 134, September 19, 2005
Subjects: Forestry--Protection and preservation, Forests and forestry--Protection and preservation, Storms--Influence, Storms--United Kingdom
...Chalk Pit intensifies the turbulent power of the work, titled Declination. The sculpture seems all the more restless in a location...dialogue immediately springs up. The bright horizontal bulk of Declination contrasts absolutely with the dark, elongated verticality...
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newspaper articles on: Declination  - 16 results

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Solar Rhythms on Offbeat Path
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), December 18, 2007
...astronomical measurements known as solar declination and the equation of time. Solar declination refers to the height of the sun in the...southerly, on the winter solstice. The suns declination also affects sunrise and sunset, because...
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This Time We Didn't Go South
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 17, 2003
...we all know, the worlds not flat. Theres what they call "declination," or how many degrees off true north the magnetic north is...to get somewhere in the woods, you have to know what the declination is. You have to adjust your compass to get to where you want...
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Your Stars
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 29, 2009
...can offer you the strength you seek. You are running out of time before a close one starts to interpret your silence as a declination of their love. The number seven is lucky for you and links to a lie youre about to uncover. Call my starline now for more...
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You Find It Impossible Not to Flirt,
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 29, 2009
...can offer you the strength you seek. You are running out of time before a close one starts to interpret your silence as a declination of their love. The number seven is lucky for you and links to a lie youre about to uncover. Call my starline now for more...
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Fence Post
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March 17, 2006
...to her. Goudie reminds us that Illinois law does not give 16-year-old persons the legal right to consent. But consent and declination are opposite sides of the same coin. We forget that saying "no" to sex was difficult during adolescence even in the most...
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encyclopedia articles on: Declination  - 11 results

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Declination
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DECLINATION in astronomy, one of the coordinates in the equatorial coordinate system . The declination of a celestial body is its angular distance north or south of the celestial equator measured along its hour circle...
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Hour Circle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...through both the body and the north celestial pole. A stars hour circle is used in determining its right ascension and declination . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press...
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Chart
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...North Pole), magnetic north (the direction indicated by the north-seeking end of a magnetic compass needle), and magnetic declination (the difference between these two directions). Data shown on marine charts include the outline and nature of coasts, with...
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Circumpolar Star
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...circumpolar, since only one half of the celestial sphere can ever be seen. For an observer at any other latitude a star whose declination is greater than 90 minus the observers latitude will be circumpolar, appearing to circle the celestial pole and remaining...
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Compass
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...needle freely suspended so that in the earths magnetic field it turns until aligned with the magnetic north and south poles. Declination is the angle between the magnetic needle and the geographical meridian. Use of the compass by the early Chinese is probably...
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