It's easy enough to gauge an asteroid's longitude and latitude, but figuring out its current celestial position is tricky. |
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He carried on his celestial observations alone from a tower situated on the protective wall of the cathedral. |
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In the early 1960s a new class of celestial objects called quasars was identified. |
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Radio astronomers found pulsars, quasars, and massive molecular clouds dotting the celestial landscape. |
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Out beyond the galaxies, there are celestial objects called quasars, whose light has traveled at least 10 billion years to get here. |
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I saw sequoias as tall and straight as skyscrapers, celestial waterfalls and a wilderness stretching to unseen horizons. |
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They aligned their buildings with celestial movements, marking where the sun rose at the summer and winter solstices. |
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Far from being a mere passenger, Hattie kept the ship's weather logs, learned celestial navigation and even handled the vessel on some occasions. |
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It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds. |
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The Sakya tradition is closely bound up with the Khon ancestral lineage, which derived from celestial beings. |
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The figures seem to fly like angels through a celestial space, painted on a great altarpiece. |
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Chapter 4 deals with the process of creating ringed planets, star fields, and other celestial bodies. |
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Like the linking verb in a sentence, it is meant to connect the microcosm of the original film with the celestial stratosphere of the finale. |
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The ability to witness the pastimes between the demigods and the celestial girls called apsaras. |
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They are apsaras, celestial beings who live in the sky, while our dull, ant-like forms struggle below. |
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The clock is a tower topped by an armillary sphere and celestial globe of mechanical and hydraulic engineering, about thirty-five feet high. |
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You then have the astro-archaeology theory which avers that the rows were aligned to certain celestial bodies. |
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Angles are the most common type of numbers that astronavigators and celestial navigators calculate. |
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The celestial globe is an astronomical instrument used to measure the stars and the nature of the universe. |
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I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance! |
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Writing and wrapping completed, we became celestial mail carriers searching out the best mailbox. |
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Hundreds of photographers, tourists and celestial geeks gathered on street corners to witness Manhattanhenge. |
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This celestial alignment will create greater flow between the realms of thought and the world of physical manifestation. |
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The latter study led to the adaptive optics that now enable terrestrial telescopes to produce ultra-sharp images of distant celestial objects. |
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From this elevated angle, the crowd looked like a mass of glowing angels doing some sort of celestial dance. |
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The alabaster's milky translucence and variegated, veined surfaces suggest the body, celestial charts and tide-roiled seashores. |
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By the semidiameter of a celestial object, is meant the angle which the radius of its apparent circular disc subtends at the eye of the observer. |
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Picard devised a micrometer to measure the diameters of celestial objects such as the Sun, Moon and planets. |
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The Sun crosses the celestial equator from north to south as it traces its apparent annual path against the background of stars. |
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This celestial transit will make you feel highly critical of an ongoing situation in your life. |
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All souls were created at the beginning of time, and are stored in a celestial treasury until the time of birth. |
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The night sky should be exploding with celestial activity as one of the most impressive shooting star showers of the year takes place this week. |
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An occasional sibilance of hazy white noise and clattering of plates pock marks the almost celestial church organ that began the piece. |
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There are no Gods, no grand plans, no celestial architects, no blissful after-lives and no eternal damnation. |
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The Ganges is worshiped as a mother goddess, Gangadevi, and her celestial water is believed to possess supernatural power. |
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Late Sunday and early Monday, skywatchers might be treated to celestial fireworks unlike anything witnessed before. |
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The first understandings of celestial mechanics were not dependent on vast stretches of time. |
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Its orbit takes it almost a third of the way to the Moon, so that astronomers can enjoy long, uninterrupted views of celestial objects. |
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Since many celestial events occur independent of local time, Universal Time is used by astronomers of all nations. |
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Within natural philosophy he gave new direction to optics, mechanics, and celestial dynamics. |
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The solstitial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and these two solstitial points. |
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Right ascension, measures the easterly distance of an object from the vernal point, along the plane of the celestial equator. |
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Jupiter's celestial brilliance portrays vitality, power, strength, and freedom of will. |
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Despite his obvious contempt for anything celestial, I continued to peep discreetly into the astrology columns of newspapers and magazines. |
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to record celestial motions through careful observation. |
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Clark used celestial observation to determine latitude, triangulating position with an octant. |
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Circular, rather than straight-line motion was the natural state of the Aristotelian celestial world. |
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Tracing the light back as a straight-line path, it appears to us that the star has shifted its position in the celestial sky. |
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In the coming months, astronomy enthusiasts are in for a string of rare celestial events involving the heavenly bodies in the solar system. |
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No photograph can prepare you for this, no understanding of orbits and celestial mechanics. |
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She contributed to her father's texts on mathematics and astronomy, often compiling tables of the position of celestial bodies. |
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Clearly the Maya were astute astronomers capable of predicting celestial events and keeping records of solar eclipses and other events. |
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Tycho's awe at astronomers' predictions of celestial events turned to disillusion as his own observational skills developed. |
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Fundamentally, a satellite in orbit moves in an elliptical path created by the gravitational force of a celestial body such as a planet. |
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The 1979 Moon Treaty forbids ownership of the natural resources found on the Moon or other celestial bodies. |
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For six hours, Venus casts its shadow across the solar surface in a celestial display that has astronomers in a tizzy. |
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She also wrote books on astronomy, compiled tables of positions of celestial bodies and designed several scientific instruments. |
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Last night the blood orange moon hung low in the sky, as if some celestial giant had impressed his dirty thumbprint into the heavens themselves. |
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Great Immortal Huang, or Wong Tai Sin, is a celestial figure like the god of fortune for people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. |
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At the same time, Buddhas have the power to manifest themselves in a sublime celestial form in splendid paradises. |
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The only other painting in the room is Tinteretto's giant picture of paradise, a celestial human traffic jam. |
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We also maintain there is no conclusive evidence that Polynesians considered the first European visitors to be divine or celestial beings. |
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At the same time, Rahu is made immortal by his having tasted the celestial drink, Soma. |
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I think the Garden of Eden now revived by eco-spirituality, has come to represent the once hoped-for celestial paradise. |
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They look towards the great republic as if it were a celestial city, a fortress and arsenal of the cause. |
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One picture in that book, of a joyous naked child arching through the sky in front of a celestial city, remains my earliest image of heaven. |
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Rosand's soaring arc of sound and pristine, classical phrasing made the celestial beauty of this heavenly music soar. |
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The Persian's celestial beauty must be maintained with the earthly toil of combing and brushing on an almost daily basis. |
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The Lady had indeed a celestial beauty, but also carried a strong, fierce independence that also made her beautiful. |
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He just watched her, like a statue of celestial beauty, while he licked his lips and the snow fell and collected in his hair. |
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Karajan's emphases, apart from making music of celestial beauty, are on the opposite poles of intimacy and grandeur. |
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You can't help but feel blessed to be alive, to be able to witness such celestial beauty. |
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She draws some truly eloquent sounds from the organ, which though relatively young, is an instrument of incomparable celestial beauty. |
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Even the elaborate stone statues, basins, murals, tapestries, and miscellaneous decorations seemed to exhibit a celestial beauty. |
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The first image is of the impressive spiral galaxy NGC 6118, located near the celestial equator, in the constellation Serpens. |
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The Church of England allows its celestial liturgy to be displaced by electric guitars. |
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The statue's sky globe, which is 26 inches in diameter, shows 41 Greek constellations, as well as the celestial equator, tropics and ecliptic. |
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This is how the inverse square law of attraction was extended from celestial mechanics to the motions of atoms. |
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He contributed to many areas of astronomy and mathematics including celestial mechanics, analytic mechanics, statistics and numerical analysis. |
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In our third year at the National Defence Academy, we naval types branched off to learn celestial navigation and knots and splices. |
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The method proposed by Spence involved two stars on opposite sides of the celestial pole. |
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Lanzetta bases his conclusion on a new analysis of galaxies in the Hubble deep fields taken near the north and south celestial poles. |
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This is the phenomenon of precession, caused by the Earth's axis slowly rotating around the celestial poles. |
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Through the eye of a 5m-tall obelisk, the observer will see the south celestial pole, the point in the sky about which the southern stars rotate. |
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The Moon appears to move completely around the celestial sphere once in about 27.3 days as observed from the Earth. |
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The program provides a screensaver that depicts the celestial sphere with the major constellations outlined. |
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It begins with a description of the division of the celestial sphere into the signs of the zodiac and into degrees. |
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At best, the Gottorp globe was a crude depiction of the celestial sphere, but it could not adequately represent the planets of our Solar System. |
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Mundane objects become celestial heralds, instantly announcing the arrival of shooting stars. |
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Here are three orders which are a reflection of the triple order of the celestial hierarchy. |
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These celestial beings serve important liturgical and intercessory functions in the hierarchy of angels. |
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That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler. |
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He relied on the theory of correspondences to explain how gains in the material sphere might parallel those in the celestial. |
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It cannot be appreciated at the northern hemisphere because the constellation is circumvolving around the celestial South Pole. |
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It was the only time in recorded history that our planet may have collided with a huge celestial object. |
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The equinoctial colure is a great circle which passes through the celestial poles and the ecliptic at the two equinoxes. |
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Two great circles, the solstitial colure and the equinoctial colure, intersect at the celestial poles. |
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A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles. |
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This professor is in charge of discovery of new planets and celestial bodies. |
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Over 150 people, including school and college students, turned up at the planetarium on Thursday evening to view the celestial bodies. |
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When the planets formed 4.6 billion years ago, they formed from an agglomeration of many planetesimals, or small solid celestial bodies. |
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By far the most popular type is the planispheric astrolabe, on which the celestial sphere is projected onto the plane of the equator. |
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Such waves can hit a receiver, say a photographic plate, and produce an image of the celestial object. |
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When no landmarks or aids to navigation are visible, navigators may use the Sun, the Moon, or other celestial bodies to fix the craft's position. |
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The logic of the correction was to visualise a human form straddling the celestial North Pole and orientated with his feet toward the ground. |
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Astronomers explore the universe by passively detecting electromagnetic radiation and cosmic rays emitted by celestial objects. |
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Pulses represent any celestial radio signal of a fixed frequency that is distinguishable above the background noise. |
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In those days such simple telescopes tended to produce poor images with colored fringes around celestial objects. |
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He describes the Damascene moment when he decided to build the village like a celestial visitation. |
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There are different forms of nebulas, dark nebulas, emission nebulas and celestial nebulas. |
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The pure navigational techniques of celestial and dead reckoning should have been superseded at this time by pilotage. |
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Calculation of rising, transiting, and setting of various celestial objects is calculated geocentrically. |
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This was common practice during the Renaissance, when the same craftsmen made both celestial spheres and Earth globes. |
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The witty effect, aided by a subtle garlic cream, is that of some celestial new variety of deviled crab. |
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An aging, well-dressed don masked in dark glasses sits before a Tiepolo-like fresco of some celestial investiture involving putto and sword. |
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Apparently there were celestial pyrotechnics on a scale almost-unknown at this latitude. |
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Right ascension makes it easy to use the apparent diurnal rotation of the celestial sphere as a means to telling time. |
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It is the only celestial body, apart from the sun and moon, visible during daytime and is often known as the morning or evening star. |
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The numbers that you see along the equator line represent celestial longitude, that is, hours of right ascension. |
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The declination of a heavenly body is its angular distance from the equinoctial or celestial equator. |
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In 1958 Leimanis published some recent advances in the dynamics of rigid bodies and celestial mechanics. |
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There seemed to be no clouds in any part of the sky and as there is no moon it is quite dark so the celestial dome is very bright. |
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It was hoped that the weight of celestial opinion would undermine his authority and cause him to doubt his own decision-making ability. |
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And then Krishna and Arjuna, seated on the same car, blew their celestial conches. |
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Data accumulation from the closer celestial bodies resulted in development of parallel branches such as selenology, areology, etc. |
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A tropic point is the sun's position on the celestial sphere at the time of a solstice. |
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This universe is very similar to our own, with thousands of stars and galaxies, black holes, comets and meteors each a part in the never-ending celestial dance. |
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It is the language adoration, the music of celestial spheres. |
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Throughout this book, Guest weaves in connections to Berlioz, ballet, choreography, the origins of poetry itself and multi-faceted aspects of imagined celestial spheres. |
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This complementary data is also helping astronomers identify the celestial object that is releasing the gamma rays and allow it to be more fully analysed. |
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Although Saturn has passed overhead before dusk, the planet, because it appears well north of the celestial equator, remains visible for several hours after sunset. |
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Pods strung on armatures and made into shapes that evoke crowns, starbursts and galaxies add human or celestial content and help the natural materials transcend their roots. |
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However, due to lengthy computations and the space needed for large charts, the timeworn system of celestial navigation was ill suited to the airplane cockpit. |
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This is not about becoming spritely, so much as a little celestial. |
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There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's celestial beauty. |
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Depending on what potentiality he develops, he may become a plant, an animal, a celestial being, an angel, or he may even be unified with God himself. |
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Tonight's showing of New York's hometown celestial alignment, known as Manhattanhenge, was a spectacular success that more than made up for the washout in May. |
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He made contributions to numerous branches of mathematics, celestial mechanics, fluid mechanics, the special theory of relativity and the philosophy of science. |
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The interpretation of eclipses affected the outcome of strategic battles in ancient times, and even today these celestial events are regarded superstitiously by many. |
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Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences. |
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The performance was an attempt at reviving the legendary playing of music prior to the celestial wedding of Goddess Meenakshi with Lord Sundareswarar. |
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In effect, this broke the celestial sphere into 36 subdivisions, the rising and setting of whose stars were used as a way of telling time throughout the night. |
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Whereas terrestrial longitude uses meridians of longitude, right ascension uses hour circles which run between the north and south celestial poles. |
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Modern scholarship has not seriously affected his stature in the fields of mathematics, dynamics, celestial mechanics, astronomy, optics, natural philosophy, or cosmology. |
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Birds may use celestial bodies or the Earth's magnetic field to steer their way but they also depend on major topographical features to aid in navigation. |
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Often, the two satellites have observed the same celestial object simultaneously, to gain a more complete record of the object's behaviour at gamma ray and X-ray wavelengths. |
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The eleven wooden vessels were powered by the wind and guided by the celestial bodies, thanks to that remarkable scientific instrument, the sextant. |
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He wanted to understand how celestial events influenced sublunar ones. |
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The title of the latter work alludes to the astronomical notion that the area behind Orion is a kind of celestial incubator, generating uncountable new stars. |
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So he is not, like Frankenstein, defying the gods but reaching out for a taste of the celestial heaven and therefore deserving to be honored as the best among men. |
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If one extrapolates the equator of the Earth out into the sky, the celestial equator is delineated as a circle cutting the celestial sphere into two. |
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The vernal and autumnal equinoxes occur when the ecliptic crosses the celestial equator, so linking stars, sun and earth through the passage of time. |
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I see them also as my joys invaluable, divine, and celestial. |
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In a book entitled Analemma he discussed methods of finding the angles need to construct a sundial which involves the projection of points on the celestial sphere. |
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Page 28 of the Codex Borgia is, in effect, one page in an almanac produced by astronomer-calculators to suit a particular time and place of celestial observation. |
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As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes. |
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A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach. |
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On the whole, the vortex theory offered the natural philosopher a highly intuitive model of celestial phenomena that was compatible with the mechanical philosophy. |
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The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity. |
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Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost. |
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At first thought this does not seem too difficult a problem, even without a bright star close to the north celestial pole during the millennia of interest. |
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The main branches are astrometry, celestial mechanics, and astrophysics. |
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Put simply, the basis of celestial circles, astronomical events and planetary motion can't be conveyed by words, they have to be demonstrated through diagrams. |
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There he gave courses on astronomy, celestial mechanics, the differential and integral calculus, the theory of probability, geometry and trigonometry. |
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And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity. |
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The navigator has a bombsight and celestial data as a guide. |
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It consisted of a system of rings corresponding to the great circles of the celestial sphere with a central tube which was used to line up stars and planets. |
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Most tracks are simply heavy rhythmic grooves, adorned with ethnic percussion and wah-wah, with Davis spurting spacey, celestial trumpet shapes over the top. |
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These scientific giants had accurately described phenomena of dynamics and celestial mechanics, but neither had formulated scientific explanations. |
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He now began to construct astronomical instruments, including water clocks for accurate timing and armillary spheres which represent the celestial globe. |
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Ancient astronomers found the notion of celestial spheres useful to the conduct of their discipline, but now we know that there are no celestial spheres. |
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We can only thank some celestial power that he did not seek refuge in the United States. |
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Geniuses joined the realm of intermediate beings, alternately exalted and tormented by celestial visions. |
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Years, months, and days can, at least in theory, be based on celestial realities, but minutes and seconds are mostly conventions. |
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Stonehenge, for instance, appears to have been constructed in part to observe celestial events like the summer and winter solstices. |
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God set before him a mortal and immortal life, a nature celestial and terrene. |
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The image, of a region of sky near the south celestial pole, is the equivalent of a black and white photo, but made from radio waves. |
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You don't want to be right at the equator because you couldn't get the celestial poles from the equatorial regions. |
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Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below. |
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We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory. |
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It is only 100 feet across but it now has the honor of being the solar system's fastest-spinning celestial object. |
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Arab navigational tools like the astrolabe and quadrant were used for celestial navigation. |
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For celestial navigation the Portuguese used the Ephemerides, which experienced a remarkable diffusion in the 15th century. |
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Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult. |
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The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death. |
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Air may consist of any terrene or aqueous corpuscles, kept swimming in the interfluent celestial matter. |
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He demonstrated that these laws apply to everyday objects as well as to celestial objects. |
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He realised that the same force is responsible for movements of celestial and terrestrial bodies, namely gravity. |
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This work also demonstrated that the motion of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies could be described by the same principles. |
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However, the atomic electron and proton are held together by electromagnetic force, while planets and celestial objects are held by gravity. |
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But celestial imperiousness, love, wrath, and fervour, had proved to be somewhat thrown away on netherward Egdon. |
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Migrating birds navigate using celestial cues from the sun and stars, the earth's magnetic field, and probably also mental maps. |
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Tidal forces are periodic variations in gravitational attraction exerted by celestial bodies. |
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The model divided the universe into a celestial and an earthly sphere pierced by the same poles. |
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The zones of the celestial sphere repeated on a larger scale those of the terrestrial sphere. |
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The celestial Arctic Circle was regarded as identical to the circumference of the circumpolar stars and therefore a variable. |
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It explained geometrical models of the planets based on combinations of circles, which could be used to predict the motions of celestial objects. |
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The snake is one of the 12 celestial animals of Chinese Zodiac, in the Chinese calendar. |
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Viewed from the celestial north pole, the motion of Earth, the Moon, and their axial rotations are all counterclockwise. |
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In the thirteenth century celestial navigation was already known, guided by the sun position. |
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For celestial navigation like other Europeans, they used Greek tools, like the astrolabe and quadrant, which they made easier and simpler. |
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As the celestial pole and geographic pole, it expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet. |
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Astrology in all its forms assumes a connection between human health and affairs and the orientation of these with celestial bodies. |
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Greek astronomy is characterized from the start by seeking a rational, physical explanation for celestial phenomena. |
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It was left to Newton's invention of celestial dynamics and his law of gravitation to finally explain the motions of the planets. |
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Our main source of information about celestial bodies and other objects is visible light more generally electromagnetic radiation. |
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One of the oldest fields in astronomy, and in all of science, is the measurement of the positions of celestial objects. |
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Large frame quadrants were used for astronomical measurements, notably determining the altitude of celestial objects. |
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When set on a pedestal or other mount, they could be used to measure the angular distance between any two celestial objects. |
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At a given time, any celestial body is located directly over one point on the Earth's surface. |
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The observed angle must be corrected for the effects of refraction and parallax, like any celestial sight. |
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For small cruising boat crews, celestial navigation is generally considered an essential skill when venturing beyond visual range of land. |
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A variation on terrestrial celestial navigation was used to help orient the Apollo spacecraft en route to and from the Moon. |
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Celestial navigation trainers combine a simple flight simulator with a planetarium in order to train aircraft crews in celestial navigation. |
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Crux is exactly opposite to Cassiopeia on the celestial sphere, and therefore it cannot appear in the sky with the latter at the same time. |
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A stop watch, either spring wound or digital, may also be used for celestial observations. |
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The importance of a deity, its characteristics, and its associations varied according to the movement of celestial bodies. |
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The minor planet 10648 Plancius commemorates his contributions in celestial and terrestrial cartography. |
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A large part of Mercator's income came from the sales of his terrestrial and celestial globes. |
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The globe was finished in 1536 and its celestial counterpart appeared one year later. |
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One of the most remarkable astronomical instruments invented in Mughal India is the seamless celestial globe. |
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For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there. |
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The south celestial pole can be found midway along the line joining Crux to Achernar. |
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They ranged from the white habit worn for Love Game to the leather bikini of Telephone and the celestial regality of So Happy I Could Die. |
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For the true Hindu renunciate, with all its celestial rewards, heaven also is something to be left behind. |
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These, known as Lagrange points, exist where the gravitational attractions from two celestial bodies are exactly equal. |
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Like planets, dwarf planets are spherical in shape, but they share the same celestial neighborhood with other similar-sized bodies. |
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His plan was to use celestial navigation to keep the flight on course until it was within range of Itasca. |
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The celestial hosts are not eternal but immortal, created and, at least in principle, exterminable. |
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Earth's axis is inclined at approximately 23 degrees to the Sun's celestial equator changing the altitude of the Sun during the year. |
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By the time of dichotomy in late October the planet's declination will be well south of the celestial equator. |
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In the northern hemisphere, the Sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward. |
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It is also the one constellation that is viewable all over the world, as it lies on the celestial equator. |
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So why have the days been outstripping nights, even if the sun hasn't crossed the celestial equator yet? |
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Using the 6-meter Atacama telescope, astronomers analyzed the temperature of the afterglow in a narrow strip of sky along the celestial equator. |
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He was also versed in the sciences of medicine, astronomy, geography, mathematics, physics and celestial mechanics. |
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Andy Papageorge, remarked that celestial navigation in a K-ship was were assigned to each crew navigators. |
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All of the airline's new A330s are being named after a star or constellation used by Polynesian voyagers for celestial navigation. |
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The company also has celestial navigation courses, in which sailors of all experience levels are introduced to the concept. |
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Guo began to construct astronomical instruments, including water clocks for accurate timing and armillary spheres that represented the celestial globe. |
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For celestial navigation the Portuguese, like other Europeans, used Arab navigation tools, like the astrolabe and quadrant, which they made easier and simpler. |
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In some cases these spirits are divided into celestial or chthonic classes, and belief in the existence of all these beings does not imply that all are worshipped. |
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In Abrahamic religions and Zoroastrianism, angels are often depicted as benevolent celestial beings who act as intermediaries between God or Heaven and Earth. |
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Precipitation may occur on celestial bodies other than Earth. |
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The IAU is the formal authority for naming celestial bodies. |
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That celestial object, a blue supergiant called P Cygni, lies some 6,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus and is about 30 times as massives as the sun. |
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The authors, a planetary scientist and a space sciences writer, make celestial mechanics comprehensible even to readers with more curiosity than scientific background. |
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A second method of determining the latitude of the observer measures the angle of elevation of a celestial pole, north in the northern hemisphere. |
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The imaginary hypotenuse looked along the line of sight to the celestial body or marked the edge of a shadow cast by the vertical leg on the horizontal leg. |
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Somali poetry depicts humans interactions, pastoral animals, beasts on the prowl, and other natural things such the rain, celestial events and historic events of significance. |
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As the sun crosses the celestial equator, the axis of the Earth points neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness. |
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The white saltire set against a celestial blue background is said to have been adopted as the design of the flag of Scotland on the basis of this legend. |
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Cosmology differs from astronomy in that the former is concerned with the Universe as a whole while the latter deals with individual celestial objects. |
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It is enough that gravity does really exist and acts according to the laws I have explained, and that it abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies. |
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Except for the celestial objects in the arms, the motto was that of the Star of India, referring to the troopships bound for British India that left from the port. |
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Astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral galaxy. |
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We find that motion near the surface of an irregular asteroid is quite different from the motion near the surface of a homoplastically spheroidal celestial body. |
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How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial future? How will you connect your celestial goals with your everyday life? |
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Observatories are usually associated with observational studies and theories concerning celestial objects, spaces in-between these objects and the universe as a whole. |
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It is the privilege of the celestial luminaries to receive no tincture, sullage, or defilement from the most noisome sinks and dunghills here below. |
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The bodies will then be changed, those of the wicked to a state of everlasting shame and torment, those of the righteous to an everlasting state of celestial glory. |
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Nahmanides offered a more comprehensive system, with divine remuneration for better or worse both in this world, via natural means, and in a celestial heaven and hell. |
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The foreword by HRH the Duke of York leads in to the opening chapters, which look at how navigation and navigational tools, celestial navigation, and surveying developed. |
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The Maya made meticulous observations of celestial bodies, patiently recording astronomical data on the movements of the sun, moon, Venus, and the stars. |
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Light from the celestial body strikes the index mirror and is reflected to the silvered portion of the horizon glass, then back to the observer's eye through the telescope. |
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The second critical component of celestial navigation is to measure the angle formed at the observer's eye between the celestial body and the sensible horizon. |
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The galaxies lie within a continuous ribbon of sky known as SDSS Stripe 82, lying along the celestial equator and encompassing 275 square degrees. |
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Polaris always stays within 1 degree of the celestial north pole. |
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We report another precision test of quantum celestial mechanics in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system that has three planets orbiting its two central stars. |
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Most people can master simpler celestial navigation procedures after a day or two of instruction and practice, even using manual calculation methods. |
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The first phase discusses the problem of stability in a three-body system from the origin of celestial mechanics to Henri Poincare s discovery of homoclinic trajectories. |
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From the early 1970s, he taught hundreds of yachtsmen and yachtswomen the art of celestial navigation, at the club and on the cliffs at South Head. |
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The measured angle between the celestial body and the visible horizon is directly related to the distance between the celestial body's GP and the observer's position. |
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Indeed, it is the lot of not a few, whose otherwise disordered and troubled appetites of will and emotion further becloud their celestial sense while in via. |
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Astronomy should not be confused with astrology, the belief system which claims that human affairs are correlated with the positions of celestial objects. |
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