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Your search for: earth AND horizon


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Books on: earth horizon

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Encyclopedia Articles on: earth horizon

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    Horizon
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    HORIZON in astronomy, roughly circular line bounding an observers view of the surface of the earth where the sky and earth seem to meet. This is the visible horizon. At sea the visible horizon is a perfect circle with the observer at its center, but on land it is irregular...
     
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    Altazimuth Coordinate System
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...the point on the horizon directly south of him) to the point where the bodys vertical circle intersects the horizon. Because the earth rotates on its axis, the altitude and azimuth of a celestial body are constantly changing...
     
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    Moon
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...illusion causes the moon to appear larger when it is near the horizon than when it is near the zenith, the true angular size of the...moon to shine. Eclipses can occur only when the moon, sun, and earth are arranged along a straight line lunar eclipses at full moon...
     
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    Seeing
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...determined by the atmosphere of the earth. The most obvious phenomenon...Twinkling is most obvious near the horizon because the light path from...viewed when it is near the horizon owing to the same effect. In...pronounced for stars near the horizon. This effect causes the sun...
     
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    Latitude
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

    ...distance of any point on the surface of the earth north or south of the equator. The equator...instrument that measures the angle between the horizon and the sun or another celestial body...equator where the sun appears above the horizon each day of the year (see also midnight...
     

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