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  - 161 results

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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
...C. OTHER SYSTEMS OF COORDINATES 23. Celestial...from the ecliptic, and for...reference to the ecliptic and vernal...this pair of coordinates is practically...SYSTEM PRIMARY...Secondary to ecliptic through...different systems to each other...of the two coordinates is measured...
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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
...spiritual necessity. In any reconstructed system of education the poet and the artist will...planet is on the far side of the solar system, take several hours to reach us. A sequence...planet, but in another part of the solar system the contrary would be true. The outbreak...
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Astral Sciences in Mesopotamia
Book by Hermann Hunger, David Pingree; Brill, 1999
Subjects: Astronomy, Assyro-Babylonian
...I 2A+d I-P Step Function (System A) ai = arc of ecliptic (raj + a2 + ... + % = 360...which is the place in the ecliptic where a planet exerts its strongest...The shadow, centered on the ecliptic, is approached by a point on...
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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
...rete with half-myrtle ecliptic on Najm al-Dins version...with inverse polar coordinates ......... 131 3.12...bi-radial coordinate system in Ch. 66...recomputation of the ecliptic coordinates from the equatorial...
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The Story of Astronomy
Book by Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver; Perseus Publishing, 1995
Subjects: Astronomy--History
...the celestial coordinate system that is still...along the ecliptic the signs...an orderly system. Anaximander...obliquity of the ecliptic, which is expressed...plane of the ecliptic. That the...heliocentric solar system. An interesting...
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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
...the (heliocentric) ecliptic coordinate system, which is indicated...The origin of this system is the sun. The first...intersection of the ecliptic plane (the plane of...the earth. The second coordinate axis is orthogonal...
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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
...Hunger 1992 500). Assuming an ecliptic or equatorial coordinate system, Fatoohi and Stephenson...ominous if projected onto a coordinate grid were not taken into...sun and the angle between ecliptic and horizon. Non-statistical...
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Japanese Clocks: Semiotic Evidence of the Perspectival Mutation
Journal article by Eric Mark Kramer, Richiko Ikeda; The American Journal of Semiotics, Vol. 17, 2001
...because lunar cycles coordinate with the estrus cycle...began to use a cyclical system to count days. It consisted...directing, a "point" on the ecliptic is chosen, and an are...degrees occurs. The ecliptic is divided into 12...to a well-articulated system of transportation and...
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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
...however a broad line, extending like the ecliptic, sometimes on one side, and sometimes...authority as a particular part of the system against which fears of consolidation must...from any defect in this part of the system, admitting that a general government was...


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magazine articles on: Ecliptic Coordinate System  - 1 result

 
 
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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
...position along the ecliptic at the time of your...or less, the two systems will once again coincide...which record the coordinates of celestial objects...that point along the ecliptic, and-since most coordinate systems depend on the orientation...


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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 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...
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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...
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Astronomical Coordinate Systems
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...astronomical coordinates: the equatorial coordinate system , the altazimuth coordinate system , the celestial or ecliptic coordinate system , and the galactic coordinate system . These systems are based on three common principles: (1) all stars...
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Longitude
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 the permission of Columbia University...
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Latitude
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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 the permission of Columbia University...
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