...the centre of the sun, then is the longitude heliocentric, 47. The latitude of a heavenly body is its distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to the ecliptic drawn through the body. If the latitude be such as is seen from the earth's centre, it is called geocentric latitude...

...measured according to the order of the signs. If the body be in our system, and seen from the AM», it is called the heliocentric longitude; but if seen...distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to it drawn through the body. If the body be in our system, its angular distance from the ecliptic seen...

...perpendicularly to the ecliptic in a plane passing through the eye. (40.) The Latitude of a star is it's angular distance from the ecliptic, measured upon...drawn through the star. If the body be in our system, it's angular distance from the ecliptic seen, from the earth is called the geocentric latitude ; but...

...sun, then is the longitude heliocenThe latitude of a heavenly body is its distance from Latitudes, the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to the ecliptic drawn through the body. If the latitude be such as is seen from the earth's centre, it is called geocentric latitude...

...Winter Solstice. The Equinoctial Colure is a declination circle passing through the equinoxes. 35. . The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured on the arc of a secondary to the ecliptic intercepted between the star and ecliptic; and is reckoned...

...points where the ecliptic, intersects the horizon. The ¡atilinte of a star or any celestial object is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured upon a secondary to it drawn through the body. If the body be observed from the earth, its angular distance from the ecliptic...

...body being in each case referred perpendicularly to the ecliptic by a plane passing through the eye. The latitude of a star is its angular distance from...from the sun, it is called the heliocentric latitude. § 24. The tropics are two parallels of declination, touching the ecliptic. One, touching it at the...

...of the equinoctial points is called the Precession of tlie Equinoxes. lie. Ecliptic Stationary. As the latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, it follows from the circumstance of the latitudes of all the stars continuing very nearly the same,...

...eastward to 360°. 7. A great circle through the poles of the ecliptic is called a circle of latitude. 8. The latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic, measured on the circle of latitude passing through the star. SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY. and the obliquity of the...

...those formed centuries ago, we find that the latitudes of the stars continue very nearly the same. Now the latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic ; and since this distance is well-nigh invariable, it follows that the plane of the ecliptic remains...