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 Übersetzung für 'solstitial' von Englisch nach Deutsch
astron.
solstitial point
Sonnenwendepunkt {m}
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Übersetzung für 'solstitial' von Englisch nach Deutsch

solstitial point
Sonnenwendepunkt {m}astron.
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Anwendungsbeispiele Englisch
  • The Yakut people of the Sakha Republic celebrate a solstitial ceremony, "Ysyakh", involving tethering a horse to a pole and circle dancing around it.
  • In calculating latitudes of climata (latitudes correlated with the length of the longest solstitial day), Hipparchus used an unexpectedly accurate value for the obliquity of the ecliptic, 23°40' (the actual value in the second half of the second century BC was approximately 23°43'), whereas all other ancient authors knew only a roughly rounded value 24°, and even Ptolemy used a less accurate value, 23°51'.
  • This natural solstitial alignment would have symbolized cosmic unity to the ancients, a place where Heaven and Earth were unified by some supernatural force.
  • Eratosthenes most probably used a solstitial armilla for measuring the obliquity of the ecliptic.
  • For decoration it carries a few basic star patterns (considerably distorted owing to the projection used) and an eccentric zodiac / ecliptic / calendar ring faced with silver, and restricted in width to the distance between the solstitial points.

  • The Surya Siddhanta bridges this difference by juxtaposing the four solstitial and equinoctial points with four of the twelve boundaries of the rashis.
  • The second group contains ecliptic, solstitial, and equinoctial rings that turn as a unit.
  • Aparicio and Esteban suggest that the solstitial orientations of the pyramids were potentially motivated by the Masonic symbolism.
  • Astronomical almanacs define the solstices as the moments when the Sun passes through the solstitial colure, i.e.
  • More recently Gallagher, Pyle, and Fell interpreted inscriptions in West Virginia as a description in Celtic Ogham alphabet of the supposed winter solstitial marker at the site.

  • Mistletoe bears fruit at the time of the Winter Solstice, the birth of the new year, and may have been used in solstitial rites in Druidic Britain as a symbol of immortality.
  • It was laid out with clear and commanding views of Stonehenge and other ridge tops in every direction (except the northwest), and it is crossed by the same solstitial axis that passes through Stonehenge.
  • The "solstitial colure" is the meridian or great circle of the celestial sphere which passes through the poles and the two solstices: [...] the first point of Cancer and the first point of Capricorn.
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