HOUR CIRCLE

in astronomy, a secondary 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 star's hour circle is used in determining its right ascension and declination.

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books on: Hour Circle  - 46766 results

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A History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe
Book by Ernest Zebrowski Jr.; Rutgers University Press, 2000
Subjects: Circle, Cycles, Pi
...the Mesopotamian units of angle, and noting that a full 360 circle requires the passage of 24 hours, we have angular displacement...the sun always travels through an angle of about 15 each hour. This suggests that a properly oriented protractor can be...
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Circle Thinking: African Women Theologians in Dialogue with the West
Book by Carrie Pemberton; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church History, Church Work With Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Circle Of Concerned African Women Theologians, Theology, Doctrinal--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History, Women In Christianity--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women Theologians--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th Century
CIRCLE THINKING STUDIES OF RELIGION IN AFRICA SUPPLEMENTS...DEPUTY EDITOR INGRID LAWRIE (University of Leeds) XXV CIRCLE THINKING African Women Theologians in Dialogue with the...Chapter 2 THE ECUMENICAL AND CONTEMPORARY LOCATION OF THE CIRCLE OF CONCERNED AFRICAN WOMEN THEOLOGIANS Introduction...
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Poetic Drama: An Anthology of Plays in Verse from the Ancient Greek to the Modern American
Includes: Agamemnon; Oedipus Coloneus; Ion; The Acharnians; The Chalk Circle; Nakamitsu; Adam; Abraham, Melchisedec, and Isaac; The Second Shepherds' Play; Everyman; The Wandering Scholar from Paradise; Tamburlaine the Great, Part I; Measure for Measure; Volpone or The Fox; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; The White Devil; The Sheep Well; Cinna; Athaliah; The Misanthrope; Torquato Tasso; The Death of Wallenstein; The Cenci; The White Saviour; The Last Night of Don Juan; The King's Threshold; Gruach; The Dog beneath the Skin; The Death of Eve; Aria da Capo; Hole in the Wall; The Fall of the City; Shenandoah
Book by Alfred Kreymborg; Modern Age Books, 1941
Subjects: Drama--Collections
...lines of their puzzled author. Many later authors who were also tempted to write soliloquies were successful in their day or hour. But though we laugh at these solos now and never write them at all, we never laugh at Hamlet and Jaques, Coriolanus and...
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The Square Circle
Book by Denis George Mackail; Houghton Mifflin, 1931
Subjects: Fiction
...any rate, of the inhabitants have returned. THE SQUARE CIRCLE CHAPTER II THERE was nothing so very unusual at the time...pop credulously out of our heads--that the output of a six-hour day is greater and of better quality than that of an eight...
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In the Circle of the Dance: Notes of an Outsider in Nepal
Book by Katharine Bjork Guneratne; Cornell University Press, 1999
Subjects: Chitawan (Nepal : District)--Social Life And Customs, Guneratne, Katharine Bjork--1963-, Tharu (South Asian People)--Tarai Region (India And Nepal)--Social Life And Customs
...CHAPTER TWO The Circle of the Dance...Bahadurs household an hour after sunrise. Our...for less than an hour. The dancing began...Ten girls formed a circle and, continuing to...fashion, we formed a circle just to the east...for about half an hour. When we got home...
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Journal article by Charles C. Bolton; The Oral History Review, Vol. 27, 2000
Subjects: Audio-visual materials--Reviews, WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN? (Media program)--Reviews
...South Carolina. The history originally aired in 1997 and 1998 as twenty-six half-hour programs on over 250 public radio stations across the United States. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? skillfully weaves together oral histories, sound recordings from...
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Politics, Religion, and Romance: Letters of Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1802
Journal article by Timothy Whelan; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Flower, Eliza Gould--Criticism and interpretation, Flower, Eliza Gould--Records and correspondence, Love letters--Criticism and interpretation, Love-letters--Criticism and interpretation
...1/4 of an hour with me, I have not been up in Town for...half an hour together except when I went to Bedford...those who live near is about an hour half)--my three girls Mrs...
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Saving Chatterton: Imagining Historical Transmission in Coleridge
Journal article by John Axcelson; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 36, 2005
Subjects: Chatterton, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation, Chatterton, Thomas--Works, Poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Romanticism--Portrayals
...initial object of judgment for an expanded circle of readers. In a detailed analysis of paratext...Such were the struggles of the gloomy hour, When Care, of...web-site devoted to her life, work and circle: http://www2.sjsu.edu/faculty/douglass...
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Framing Romanticism: Keynote Address
Journal article by Nicola Trott; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Criticism--Analysis, Romanticism--Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism--History
...we noticed, compensated us for a four-hour delay by announcing that our train was...the problem of the artist is to draw the circle within which they happily appear to do...heartening regularity in The Wordsworth Circle, and are this year engaging the Wordsworth-Col...
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Deciphering Oracle: De Quincey's Textual Epistemology
Journal article by Deeanne Westbrook; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 34, 2003
Subjects: Burke, Edmund, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, De Quincey, Thomas, Hartley, David, Literature--Research, Locke, John, Miller, J. Hillis, Rorty, Richard
...Shakespearean Involutes" in The Wordsworth Circle 29:1 (1998): 41-51;--. ed. "Introduction...Literature of Power," in The Wordsworth Circle 31:3 (2000): 158-64; Hartley, David. Observations...Coleridge and De Quincey." The Wordsworth Circle 24:2 (1993): 91-6; Rorty, Richard. Contingency...
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The Unlikeliest Classics: Theodore Mann's Memoir Renders Circle in the Square in Its Golden Years
Magazine article by Howard Kissel; American Theatre, Vol. 25, February 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir (Book)--Book reviews
...Even the setting helped the play. In its nightclub days, the Circle space had blacked-out windows, but the backing had chipped...preview of Iceman was a matinee, the only way a four-and-a-half-hour play could be done in time for the critics to file reviews for...
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Full Circle
Magazine article by William F. Buckley Jr.; National Review, Vol. 41, June 2, 1989
Subjects: Circumnavigation--Personal narratives, Flights around the world--Personal narratives, Kenya--Political aspects, National liberation movements, Race relations, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Voyages around the world--Personal narratives
Full Circle. by William F. Buckley...road at about three miles per hour, resulting in an extra 15 minutes...sleep; before the 12-hour excursion plotted for the next...need to devote more than one hour to staring at a giraffe? But...
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The Inner Circle of Old Pals Has Too Much Power; the PM Should Pay More Attention to Ministers Who Just Get on with the Job
Magazine article by Steve Richards; New Statesman, Vol. 127, July 10, 1998
Subjects: Blair, Tony--Management, Political consultants--Influence, United Kingdom--Politics and government
...meetings are too short and routine, often lasting less than an hour. After this months reshuffle Blair should make more of the under-used...Mandelsons appointment would heighten the tensions within the charmed circle while suggesting that entry to it remained a closed shop. Mandelson...
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Interviews with a Paramedic, a Social Worker, an Undertaker and a Mother about Their Experiences with Death and Dying
Magazine article by Studs Tercel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, October 2001
Subjects: Death
...Studs Tercel Will the circle be unbroken, By and by, Lord...decompress. During a twenty-four-hour period, when I first started...be a minimum of one run an hour. No sooner would you put a patient...her over to Masonic, and in an hour and twenty minutes she was gone...
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The Circle of the Way: Reading the Gospel of Thomas as a ChristZen Text
Magazine article by Kenneth Arnold; Cross Currents, Vol. 51, Winter 2002
Subjects: Gnosticism--Literature, Gospel of Thomas (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jesus Christ--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Koan--Appreciation, Zen Buddhism--Appreciation
...also hope in this rereading of a Christian text to enter a "circle of the way" that also creatively rereads the Buddhist tradition...I was in a stream every week. One fish was never enough. One hour was never enough. I wanted to be troubled by the fish that lay...
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Firefly, a Popular Happy-Hour Hangout for the Twentysomething Crowd at Dupont Circle, Has Become More Than Just a Flicker on the Dining Scene
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 10, 2008
Subjects: Chemical industry, Herbicides, Pesticides industry
...a Popular Happy-Hour Hangout for the Twentysomethi...Twentysomething Crowd at Dupont Circle, Has Become More...a popular happy-hour hangout for the twentysomethi...twentysomething crowd at Dupont Circle, has become more...accessible METRO: Dupont Circle Chef Danny Bortnicks...its popular happy hour. Among his dishes...
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The Amazing Elderly Inhabit Sarah's Circle
Newspaper article by Joseph Szadkowski; The Washington Times, January 22, 1998
...encouragement to them," says Ruth Sachs, executive director of Sarahs Circle. Born in 1904, Miss Finkelstein may not be young of body...to fit into an otherwise full schedule. "We spend our lunch hour plus a bit more time helping to serve the seniors and clean...
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Lincoln Circle Upgrade to Begin; Motorists Are Urged to Detour
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 7, 2004
Subjects: United States. National Park Service
...keep two lanes of traffic open in both directions during rush hour, but I stress that this is a goal." Construction will proceed...Monday will shut down the far right lane of outbound Lincoln Circle from 23rd Street to Arlington Bridge. Mr. Line said that beginning...
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'Circle of Time' Earns Greate Reviews at Preview
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 31, 2001
...gathered to preview the eight-minute "Circle of Time." The video, scheduled for completion next year as a one-hour documentary, will feature interviews with...such minute tasks for such long periods. "Circle of Time" shows how one standard-size thimble...
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Seafood Grill Earns Its Place among Dupont Circle Stars
Newspaper article by Eric Fisher; The Washington Times, June 7, 1999
...years ago opened near Dupont Circle on 19th Street NW and closed...for a lunch in less than an hour. The menu changes daily, based...advertises itself as a happy-hour spot and proudly touts its Old...CLOSEST METRO STATION: Dupont Circle PARKING: Forget about street...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hour Circle  - 7 results

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Hour Circle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOUR CIRCLE in astronomy, a secondary axis in the equatorial coordinate system . The hour circle of a celestial body is the great circle...body and the north celestial pole. A stars hour circle is used in determining its right ascension...
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Hour Angle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...hour equals 15 degrees), measured westward along the celestial equator from the observers celestial meridian to the hour circle of the object being located. The hour angle is used in measuring astronomical time; local sidereal time is equal...
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Equatorial Coordinate System
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in question. This is the stars hour circle , analogous to a meridian of longitude...equinox and the point where the hour circle intersects the celestial equator...observer measures along the stars hour circle the angle between the celestial...
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Declination
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...declination of a celestial body is its angular distance north or south of the celestial equator measured along its hour circle . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Right Ascension
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...distance measured eastward from the vernal equinox along the celestial equator to its intersection with the bodys hour circle . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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