ecliptic in A Sentence

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    Color of Ecliptic line.

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    The color for the Ecliptic line.

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    Draw Ecliptic line in the sky map?

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    Heliocentric Ecliptic Coordinates.

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    Geocentric Ecliptic Coordinates.

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    The Ecliptic is divided into twelve equal portions each equivalent to 30 degrees;

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    But it has long been known that the Sun moves eastward relative to the fixed stars along the Ecliptic.

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    All planets orbit the sun in the same direction, counterclockwise, and on roughly the same plane, known as the Ecliptic.

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    Coordinates: 10h 56m 28.99s, +07° 00′ 52″ Wolf 359 is a red dwarf star located in the constellation Leo, near the Ecliptic.

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    It takes approximately 29.5 years for the planet to complete an entire circuit of the Ecliptic against the background constellations of the zodiac.

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    It is a constellation out there, but it's off the Ecliptic(that is, it's not along the path of the Sun through the sky).

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    Periodic comets have an average inclination to the Ecliptic of only ten degrees, and an orbital period of just 6.5 years, so Halley's orbit is atypical.

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    This can only happen when the Sun, Moon and Earth are nearly aligned on a straight line in three dimensions(syzygy) during a new moon when the Moon is close to the Ecliptic plane.

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    This can only happen when the Sun, Moon and Earth are nearly aligned on a straight line in three dimensions(called syzygy) during a new moon when the Moon is close to the Ecliptic plane.

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    This can only happen when the Sun, Moon, and Earth are nearly aligned on a straight line in three dimensions(known as syzygy) during a New Moon, when the Moon is close to the Ecliptic plane.

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    Special conditions must occur for the two events to coincide because the Moon's orbit crosses the Ecliptic at its orbital nodes twice every draconic month(27.212220 days) while a new moon occurs one every synodic month(29.530587981 days).

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    When two objects always appear close to the Ecliptic--such as two planets, the Moon and a planet, or the Sun and a planet--this fact implies an apparent close approach between the objects as seen on the sky.

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    The Moon will appear to pass in front of the Sun if the new Moon phase, when the Moon is on the day side of the Earth, occurs around the time that the Moon crosses the Ecliptic plane.

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    In the case of two objects that always appear close to the Ecliptic- such as two planets, or the Moon and a planet, or the Sun and a planet- this implies an apparent close approach between the objects as seen on the sky.

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    He noticed that the orbital plane of Jupiter's moons is slightly tilted relative to both Jupiter's equatorial plane and the Ecliptic, which explained the discrepancies in latitude. Marius also noticed the change in the moons' brightness and calculated respective tables for the years 1608 through to 1630.

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    The majority of Western astrologers base their work on the tropical zodiac which divides the sky into twelve equal segments of 30 degrees each, beginning with the first point of Aries, the point where the line of the earth's celestial equator and the Ecliptic(the Sun's path through the sky) meet at the northern hemisphere spring equinox.

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