celestial equator in a sentence
Examples
- Ophiuchus, which sprawls across the celestial equator, looks something like an old-fashioned coffeepot, its base above Scorpius and its lid near Hercules.
- Barnard's Star is among the most studied red dwarfs because of its proximity and favorable location for observation near the celestial equator.
- Based on this approach, it will thus be about 600 years before it actually crosses the celestial equator in the constellation Aquarius.
- A : The sun passed a point in the sky known as the celestial equator, the halfway point between winter and summer.
- The Earth's atmosphere limits the belts'particles to regions above 200 1, 000 km, while the belts do not extend past 8 celestial equator.
- Consequently, it contains also the horizon's north and south points, and it is perpendicular to the celestial equator and to the terrestrial meridian.
- Q : A story said spring officially arrived at 9 : 14 p . m . March 20 as determined by the celestial equator.
- But because the celestial equator is an imaginary extension of the Earth's equator, the sun's crossing of it lines it up behind the satellites.
- He observed that the ecliptic plane is inclined with respect to the celestial equator and more accurately calculated the length of the tropical year.
- For an object with an eccentric orbit but no axial tilt, the analemma would be a straight east west line along the celestial equator.