Sentences with phrase «position in the sky»

Solar thermal power systems have tracking systems that keep sunlight focused onto the receiver throughout the day as the sun changes position in the sky.

While this track was being replaced, the telescope was unable to move and could only point at a fixed position in the sky.

Do any students connect the shadow measurements to the fact that the sun's position in the sky also seemed to change throughout the day?

Using the ultra-sharp «vision» of the continent - wide VLBA, the astronomers have pinpointed the burster's position in the sky with extremely high precision — less than a thousandth of a second of arc.

According to a regulatory disclosure released Thursday, Elliott has built up a long position in Sky via derivative contracts.

According to a regulatory disclosure released Monday, Elliott increased its long position in Sky via derivative contracts.

Even on a sunny day during the winter, the sun isn't in the same position in the sky as in summer, and the number of hours of light in the day is much less.

It was still there in late 2009, before Jupiter's position in the sky brought it too close to the sun to be observed from Earth.

The study began by improving Mercury's charted ephemeris — the road map of the planet's position in our sky over time.

«Using numerical simulations we have calculated the radiants or positions in the sky from which all these hyperbolic objects seem to come,» explains Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, who together with the other coauthors publishes the results in the MNRAS Letters journal.

Astronomers will measure the mass by examining images of each of the background stars to see how far the stars are offset from their real positions in the sky.

Using a specialized underwater camera -LRB-...), the researchers took numerous polarization measurements of several open water and coastal species of fish throughout the day as the sun changed position in the sky, causing subsequent changes in the polarization of light underwater.

The fact that Eddington's eclipse was in May but the NYT story ran in November is also significant: Eddington had to wait for the stars to return to the same positions in the sky that they held during the eclipse to verify his results.

Eden Full, 19 Princeton University Project: Roseicollis Technologies In high school, Eden Full designed a solar panel that rotates to follow the sun's position in the sky.

If Einstein were right, the sun's presence would deflect their light, subtly shifting their position in the sky.

Portegies Zwart proposes identifying stellar relatives via their proper motion, or apparent movement across our line of sight, their position in the sky, and their chemical signatures, which he likens to their stellar DNA.

For decades, astronomers watched these phenomena closely, keeping track of their positions in the sky.

In principle, a firm number is possible by tracking the tiny wobbles in the star's position in the sky.

Monarchs use their large, complex eyes to monitor the sun's position in the sky.

Biologists have previously studied the rhythmic patterns in monarch antennae that control the internal clock, as well as how their compound eyes decipher the sun's position in the sky.

They anesthetized the others, disrupting their sense of time and, as a result, their ability to use the sun's position in the sky to navigate.

How do bees find their way back to the hive even when the sun, which they use as reference point, has changed its position in the sky?

Being so very, very far away, and therefore holding their positions in our sky with what appears to be perfect constancy, quasars allow us to find our bearings here on Earth with near - perfect precision.

Had it missed, the sun's position in the sky would have changed because of Earth's rotation and the opportunity would have gone.

For most of that period, the bursts» positions in the sky were known only with limited precision, making study of them by ground - based optical and radio telescopes impossible.

Astronomers can measure the distance by using a method called parallax, in which the change in a star's position in the sky is measured at different times during the year.

The SUNFLOWER detects the sun's position in the sky and adjusts itself accordingly allowing the user to bask in the ambience of a sunny day without risking sun damage to their skin.

As the sun changes the position in the sky, the Classic rooms in The Regenza by Tunga reflects different hues of color and detail.