 | Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802 - 590 σελίδες
...the centre of the sun, then is the longitude heliocentric, 47. The latitude of a heavenly body is its distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to the ecliptic drawn through the body. If the latitude be such as is seen from the earth's centre, it is called geocentric latitude... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 σελίδες
...in each case being referred perpendicularly to the ecliptic in a plane passing through the eye. 40. The latitude of a star is its angular distance from...from the sun, it is called the heliocentric latitude. 41. Thus, if VQ be the equator, VC the ecliptic, T the first point of aries, * a star, and the great... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 σελίδες
...in each case being referred perpendicularly to the ecliptic in a plane passing through the eye. 40. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to it drawn through the body. If the body be in our system, its angular distance from the ecliptic seen... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 σελίδες
...perpendicularly to the ecliptic in a plane passing through the eye. (40.) The Latitude of a star is it's angular distance from the ecliptic, measured upon...drawn through the star. If the body be in our system, it's angular distance from the ecliptic seen, from the earth is called the geocentric latitude ; but... | |
 | 1823 - 894 σελίδες
...sun, then is the longitude heliocenThe latitude of a heavenly body is its distance from Latitudes, the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to the ecliptic drawn through the body. If the latitude be such as is seen from the earth's centre, it is called geocentric latitude... | |
 | John Hymers - 1840 - 386 σελίδες
...Winter Solstice. The Equinoctial Colure is a declination circle passing through the equinoxes. 35. . The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured on the arc of a secondary to the ecliptic intercepted between the star and ecliptic; and is reckoned... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 σελίδες
...points where the ecliptic, intersects the horizon. The ¡atilinte of a star or any celestial object is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to it drawn through the body. If the body be observed from the earth, its angular distance from the ecliptic... | |
 | William Augustus Norton - 1867 - 636 σελίδες
...of the equinoctial points is called the Precession of tlie Equinoxes. lie. Ecliptic Stationary. As the latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, it follows from the circumstance of the latitudes of all the stars continuing very nearly the same,... | |
 | Lefébure de Fourcy (M., Louis Etienne) - 1868 - 350 σελίδες
...eastward to 360°. 7. A great circle through the poles of the ecliptic is called a circle of latitude. 8. The latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured on the circle of latitude passing through the star. SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY. and the obliquity of the... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1870 - 274 σελίδες
...those formed centuries ago, we find that the latitudes of the stars continue very nearly the same. Now the latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic ; and since this distance is well-nigh invariable, it follows that the plane of the ecliptic remains... | |
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The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. 
