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Meanings of right ascension in English
Portuguese
ascensão reta Spanish
ar (Astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere.
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The Turusch had emerged from metaspace in Pisces-aroundright ascension one hour.
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Add the clock time to the hour reading to get right ascension.
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I have right ascension sighting of balloon after twenty seconds, correct?
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At each time-hack Kappelyushnikov read off right ascension and declination bearings.
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Neptune was in the constellation Taurus, at a right ascension of four hours.
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This motor governs the hour motion, that one the right ascension.
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New course fifteen hours right ascension, plus fifteen degrees declination. She blinked, looked puzzled.
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It contains the right ascension, declination, and azimuth index, all neatly carved upon slate.
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A. M. Subtract right ascension of planet from the time shown by the clock, thus:
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Declination about minus twenty, as I remember it, and right ascension between six and seven hours.
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To find a star in the heavens, look up its declination and right ascension in an atlas.
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The hours of right ascension and the degrees of declination are the main things to be noticed.
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Like latitude and longitude, positions in the sky are measured with two angles: right ascension and declination.
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The first cycle, covering the entire sky from zero to twenty-four hours of right ascension, has been completed.
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He introduced new methods for determining the position of the equinox and the right ascension of a fundamental star.
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For the sun we have its longitude, right ascension, and declination, all expressed in arc and not in time.
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Translations for right ascension
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Right ascension through the time
Right ascension across language varieties
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