Ecliptic - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Shortened or reduced said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth as measured in the plane of the ecliptic or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic meets the ecliptic...
Counterglow
An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun best seen during September and October when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces Its cause is not yet understood Called also Gegenschein...
Dorado
A southern constellation within which is the south pole of the ecliptic called also sometimes Xiphias or the Swordfish...
Draco
The Dragon a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic...
ecliptic
A great circle of the celestial sphere making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23deg 28 It is the apparent path of the sun or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun...
Obliquity
The condition of being oblique deviation from a right line deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity the amount of such deviation divergence as the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator...
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