 | Samuel Vince - Astronomy - 1811 - 260 pages
...measured upon a secondary to the equator drawn through the body. 39. The longitude of a star is an arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of aries and a secondary to the ecliptic passing through the star, measured according to the order of the signs.... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Astronomia - 1814 - 602 pages
...equator, measured upon a secondary to it drawn through the body. 39. The Longitude of a star is an arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of aries and a secondary to the ecliptic passing through the body, measured according to the order of the signs.... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Astronomy - 1818 - 158 pages
...reckoned from the ecliptic towards its pole, either north or south. Longitude of a Star, is an arch of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries, and the circle of latitude which passes through the star. This is reckoned eastward only. The elevation of the pole above the... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Hydrostatics - 1820 - 472 pages
...measured upon a secondary to the equator drawn through the body. (39.) The Longitude of a star is an arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries and a secondary to the ecliptic passing through the star, measured according to the order of the signs.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...listen to my lays. Sbenitmefi Economy. AUX, in astronomy, see AUGF.S. Some use nux to denote the arch of the ecliptic, intercepted between the first point of Aries, and the point wherein the sun, or a planet, is at its greatest distance from the cnrth. AUXENTIUS, bishop of... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...ecliptic, the arc of this circle between the bod/ and the ecliptic Is called the latitude of the body, and the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries, and the intersection of the secondary with the ecliptic, is called the longitude of the body. The place of... | |
 | Thomas Squire - Astronomy - 1836 - 332 pages
...geocentric latitude, and from the sun, heliocentric latitude. 23. The longitude of a heavenly body is an arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries and a secondary to the ecliptic passing through the body. It is heliocentric longitude when seen from the... | |
 | William Augustus Norton - Astronomy - 1839 - 530 pages
...this circle at right angles. Thus, KSL represents a part of the circle of latitude of the star S. 30. The Longitude of a heavenly body is the arc of the ecliptic, intercepted between the vernal equinox and the circle of latitude, which passes through the centre of the body, as reckoned... | |
 | John Hymers - Astronomy - 1840 - 386 pages
...and south from 0° to 90°. The Sun moving in the Ecliptic has no Latitude. The Longitude of a star is the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries and a secondary to the ecliptic passing through the star; and • is measured, like right ascension, from... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 pages
...secondary to it passing through the object. The longitude of a star or any celestial object is art arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries, and a secondary to the ecliptic, passing through the body, measured according to the order of the signs.... | |
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The longitude of a heavenly body is the arc of the ecliptic intercepted between the first point of Aries and the... 
