Sentences with phrase «celestial pole»
As you move northward, the northern celestial pole gradually rises above the horizon, so the sky is in effect tilted.
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The closer you get to the north celestial pole, the harder it gets!
The cameras are aimed in an arrangement that stacks their field of view areas vertically, one atop the other, in a total 24 - by - 96 degree observation sector from the ecliptic to the celestial pole.
The mirror is mounted to rotate about an axis through its front surface that points to a celestial pole and is driven at the rate of one revolution in 48 hours.
The cameras on TESS afford it a 24 by 96 degree field of view, which will stretch from the celestial pole down to about six degrees above the ecliptic plane.
It's an improbable coincidence, this conspicuous distant sun sitting within a single degree of the celestial pole, the precise spot around which everything pivots.
Analysis of early galaxies in the Hubble deep fields taken near the north and south celestial poles (in 1995 and 1998, respectively) suggest that the farthest objects in the deep fields are only the «tip of the iceberg» of a uniquely effervescent period of star birth.
Not exact matches
The axis of the universe is defined by the terrestrial poles, and the Earth's equator is projected outward, creating a celestial equator as well.
Somewhat related to the geographic north pole is the considerably less famous instantaneous north pole, where Earth's rotational axis meets its surface, as well as the celestial north pole, where the axis spears the night sky (in an imaginary extension kind of way).
Constellation Ara, the Altar, is located next to the celestial south pole.
Saturn itself is the celestial tree - topper of this trio, with a wide - angle look at its north pole revealing the planet's hexagonal jet stream and its spinning polar vortex.
The Southern Cross is a constellation of four stars called Crixa, two of which point towards the celestial south pole.
Among the twenty - plus fixed instruments at the compound, a VirtualTourist member noted that his favorite was the Jai Praksh Yantra, a pair of hemispheres made from marble and sunken into the ground that is capable of determining both the ecliptic pole during the day and the celestial coordinates at night.