 | George Albert Wentworth - 1882 - 234 pages
...standards of reference. The co-ordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1884 - 330 pages
...standards of reference. The corordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1887 - 346 pages
...standards of reference. The co-ordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | James Edward Oliver - 1889 - 178 pages
...nearly fixed on the celestial sphere ; the hour-angle changes every moment. 2. As to the ecliptic : The latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a secondary ; and the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the vernal equinox and this secondary,... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - 1892 - 392 pages
...given iu nautical almanacs. III. The ecliptic and the circle of latitude through the vernal equinox. The latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude ; it may be north or south, and is reckoned from 0° to 90°. The longitude... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1895 - 422 pages
...standards of reference. The co-ordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1895 - 436 pages
...standards of reference. The co-ordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | George William Jones - 1896 - 216 pages
...nearly fixed on the celestial sphere ; the hour-angle changes every moment. 2.' As to the ecliptic : The latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a secondary; and the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the vernal equinox and this secondary,... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - 1897 - 384 pages
...standards of reference. The co-ordinates of the star are then called its latitude and its longitude. ' The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic included between the vernal... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1897 - 264 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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The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude. 
