ECLIPTIC COORDINATE SYSTEM

an astronomical coordinate system in which the principal coordinate axis is the ecliptic, the apparent path of the sun through the heavens. The ecliptic poles are the two points at which a line perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic through the center of the earth strikes the surface of the celestial sphere. The north ecliptic pole lies in the constellation Draco.

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books on: Ecliptic Coordinate System  - 19 results

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Encyclopedia of the Solar System
Book by Lucy-Ann Mcfadden, Paul R. Weissman, Torrence V. Johnson; Academic Press, 2007
Subjects: Solar System--Encyclopedias
...inclined with respect to the ecliptic (sometimes even retrograde...sumed that the Solar System was isolated from the...members of the Solar System. Luckily for the planets...define a rectangular coordinate system (x, y, z), centered...
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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
...briefly to the corrections to a stars position which are made necessary by the motion of the coordinate systems. The equinoxes, the equator, and the ecliptic are all in constant motion their motions are known as precessions and nutations, and are...
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Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Book by Hermann Hunger, David Pingree; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
...though a strong case for an ecliptic coordinate system has been made by Grasshoff...Normal Stars are stars near the ecliptic-about 30 in number-whose...identi- fications, and their coordinates in -300, based on Sachs...
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Art and Scientific Thought: Historical Studies Towards a Modern Revision of Their Antagonism
Book by Martin Johnson; Columbia Univ. Press, 1949
Subjects: Art, Art And Science
...celestial latitude and longitude, i.e. using an ecliptic coordinate system; 6 armillary sphere, which according to Tannery...function was the transmission of the Hindu numeral system with little observational background. It is remarkable...
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Black Athena Revisited
Book by Mary R. Lefkowitz, Guy MacLean Rogers; University of North Carolina Press, 1996
Subjects: Greece--Civilization--Egyptian Influences, Greece--Civilization--Phoenician Influences, Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C
...mathematical astronomy uses orthogonal ecliptic coordinates for its coordinate system. . . . this system is of Babylonian origin...is uncertain, however, whether these ecliptic coordinates were ever used much beyond the zone of...
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journal articles on: Ecliptic Coordinate System  - 4 results

 
 
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The Intrinsic Distribution and Selection Bias of Long-Period Cometary Orbits
Journal article by Peter E. Jupp, Peter T. Kim, Ja-Yong Koo, Paul Wiegert; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 98, 2003
...formed within the solar system and were subsequently...the (heliocentric) ecliptic coordinate system, which is indicated...intersection of the ecliptic plane (the plane of...first and lies in the ecliptic plane. The third axis...
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A Common Source for the Late Babylonian Chronicles Dealing with the Eighth and Seventh Centuries
Journal article by Manuel Gerber; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Babylon (Ancient city)--Literature, Civilization, Ancient--Literature
...Assuming an ecliptic or equatorial coordinate system, Fatoohi and Stephenson...or even two coordinates presumably roughly...projections onto a coordinate grid or directly...the angle between ecliptic and horizon. Non...
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St. George Tucker and the Limits of States' Rights Constitutionalism: Understanding the Federal Compact in the Early Republic
Journal article by David Thomas Konig; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 47, 2006
Subjects: Constitutions, State--Interpretation and construction, Federalism--Laws, regulations and rules, State constitutions--Interpretation and construction, State rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Tucker, Henry St. George (American politician)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...same principles in theory and the same system of action, was certainly a very difficult...against consolidation under one legal system and wrote "it is impossible for one code...the common law as a basis for a general system of laws for the federal republic. He...
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Spatial Ability and Earth Science Conceptual Understanding
Journal article by Alice A. (jill) Black; Journal of Geoscience Education, Vol. 53, 2005
Subjects: College students, Earth, Science education, Teaching methods, Visualization
...movements in the Earth/moon/sun system, relative distances within...geology, geographic information systems and cartography, meteorology...R that added x, y, and z coordinate axes to the three dimensions...the relative angles of the ecliptic and Earths equatorial plane...


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magazine articles on: Ecliptic Coordinate System  - 2 results

 
 
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Turn, Turn, Turn
Magazine article by Donald Goldsmith; Natural History, Vol. 115, December 2006
Subjects: Astronomy, Changes, Orbits, Seasons, Summer, Sun, Winter
...path called the ecliptic. Although ancient...In the zodiacal system for keeping track...the Mesopotamian system had been codified...less, the two systems will once again...which record the coordinates of celestial objects. Those coordinate systems usually...most coordinate systems depend on the orientation...telescopes tracking system, the updated coordinates...
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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
...two different coordinate systems are needed to...object in this system, the information...one with fixed coordinates in the sky...called the ecliptic, inclines to...fall along the ecliptic, dividing its...based on the coordinate system of the observer...pole of the ecliptic at exactly that...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ecliptic Coordinate System  - 10 results

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Ecliptic Coordinate System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ECLIPTIC COORDINATE SYSTEM an astronomical coordinate system...the principal coordinate axis is the ecliptic , the apparent path of the sun through the heavens. The ecliptic poles are the two points at which...
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Ecliptic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...annual journey through the heavens with the ecliptic as its path. The ecliptic is the principal axis in the ecliptic coordinate system . The two points at which the ecliptic crosses the celestial equator are the equinoxes . The obliquity of the...
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Astronomical Coordinate Systems
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...positions. Each coordinate is a quantity...curve, called a coordinate axis. There are four basic systems of astronomical coordinates: the equatorial coordinate system , the altazimuth...celestial or ecliptic coordinate system...
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Longitude
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...position on the earths surface can be specified. The term longitude is also used in various celestial coordinate systems (see ecliptic coordinate system ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
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Latitude
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...point on the earths surface can be specified. The term latitude is also used in various celestial coordinate systems (see ecliptic coordinate system ). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with...
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