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" The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. "
The Elements of Astronomy: Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears - Page 22
by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 376 pages
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A treatise on astronomy

Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802 - 590 pages
...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...
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The Elements of Astronomy: Designed for the Use of Students in the University

Samuel Vince - 1811 - 260 pages
...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...
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A Complete System of Astronomy, Volume 1

Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 pages
...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...
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The Principles of Hydrostatics: Designed for the Use of Students in the ...

Samuel Vince - 1820 - 472 pages
...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...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 3

1823 - 894 pages
...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...
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The Elements of the Theory of Astronomy

John Hymers - 1840 - 386 pages
...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...
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The New American Practical Navigator; Being an Epitome of Navigation ...

Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 pages
...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...
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A Treatise on Astronomy, Spherical and Physical: With Astronomical Problems ...

William Augustus Norton - 1867 - 636 pages
...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,...
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Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical

Lefébure de Fourcy (M., Louis Etienne) - 1868 - 350 pages
...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...
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The Elements of Astronomy: Designed for Academies and High Schools

Elias Loomis - 1870 - 274 pages
...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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