Sentences with phrase «apparent position»

Added to this would be the changing apparent position of Alpha Centauri B during its long eighty - year elliptical orbit with respect to Alpha Centauri A. (The average speed, at 4.5 degrees per Earth year, is comparable in speed to Uranus here.

By laboriously measuring the slight shift in a star's apparent position from January to July, astronomers can calculate its distance.

They were able to detect the slight offset in the object's apparent position when viewed from opposite sides of Earth's orbit around the Sun.

While the most obvious variation in the Sun's apparent position through the year is a North / South swing over 47 degrees of angle (due to the 23.5 - degree tilt of the Earth with respect to the Sun), there is an East / West component as well.

If the Earth really moved around the sun, the apparent positions of stars should change slightly over the course of a year, an effect called «stellar parallax,» and no parallax was seen.

August 27, 2012 at 2:31 pm Report abuse Bill T. OK, I'll play,»... they just keep running into trouble about 2012 years ago...», cite just ONE peer reviewed paper indicating that the apparent positions of stars in the sky are not calculable past the year 0 C.E. (your discussion is garbled but this appears to be your claim).

If we may modify Whitehead's apparent position to this extent, then we can affirm with Religion in the Making that in principle «the forms belong no more to God than to any one occasion.»

The lawsuit says Cohen's February statement was issued «without any consent by Ms. Clifford, thus evidencing Mr. Cohen's apparent position (at least in that context) that no binding agreement was in place.»

Her apparent position that it is inherently racist to talk about reducing immigration is middle class liberal nonsense.

This maximized the sensitivity of the technique, allowing it to measure the minuscule shift in the apparent position of the distant star - forming region.

Your movement affects the apparent position of objects around you, an effect known as aberration.

When we move, the apparent position of an object that is closer to us moves more within our visual field than an object located further away.

Each star's apparent position can be as much as 1/180 of a degree from its true location.

The students» actual paths were tracked using a video camera mounted on a tower, and the ball's apparent position, from the students» viewpoint, was tracked by a second camera strapped to their shoulders.

Parallax is the difference in the apparent position of an object when observed at different angles.

If general relativity was right, the apparent positions of the nearest stars would drift 1.75 arc seconds (a measure of angularity) closer to its rim during the eclipse (a pencil width seen at half a mile).

Background For millennia people have used sundials to tell the time of day based on the apparent position of the sun in the sky.

From Earth, light from a distant star passing near the sun would be bent in such a way as to alter the apparent position of the distant star.

By bending light, masses act like a lens; such «gravitational lensing» alters the apparent position of a distant object, creating multiple images of it, or (if the images overlap) appearing to brighten it.

That deflection would shift the apparent position of the source of the light (say, a distant star).

The team studied 25 galaxies in the cluster using gravitational lensing — the shift in the apparent position of a light source caused by gravity bending the light.

«Fortunately, the planetary signal predicts how fast the apparent positions of the background star and planetary host star will separate, and our observations have confirmed this prediction.

In 1728, English physicist James Bradley based his calculations on the change in the apparent position of the stars due Earth's travels around the sun.

The range of orientations that lead to transits falls off as orbital distances grow: Small changes in the angle of the planet's orbit become large changes in the apparent position of the planet and star, precluding a transit.

Crave, like much of romance publishing, takes the apparent position that romance readers are and will be straight women.

Particularly with the colour: the vibration which Hoyland sets up between an orange bar and its green field is dazzling: colours float, disembodied, off one another, but their apparent position in space is contradicted by a smoky dark edge of washed paint that pulls them back again, turning a veil of pigment into a solid object.

Particularly with the colour: the vibration that Hoyland sets up between an orange bar and its green field is dazzling: colours float, disembodied, off one another, but their apparent position in space is contradicted by a smoky dark edge of washed paint that pulls them back again, turning a veil of pigment into a solid object.

I keep trying, really I do, to understand the apparent position of people like Curry.

Under the Pearl Harbour assumption, insulated buckets had either been disregarded (because of the assumption that a changeover to engine inlets had been complete at Pearl Harbour) or were held to be of only marginal significance and thus not included in the calculations (the apparent position of Rayner et al 2006).

Antoni is further demonstration that in some cases the will itself is a misleading guide to the deceased's estate and that those involved in estate administration need to consider the legal effect of the deceased's lifetime transactions — which may not accord with the apparent position in the will.

These are usually someone very close to the HCP, such as a boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse, parent, child, best friend or someone in an apparent position of authority, such as a supervisor, company, government agency, police, doctor, lawyer, politician.