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 Translation for 'ecliptic' from English to Spanish
NOUN   an ecliptic | ecliptics
astron.
eclíptica {f}
ecliptic
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Translation for 'ecliptic' from English to Spanish

ecliptic
eclíptica {f}astron.
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Usage Examples English
  • A lunar node is either of the two orbital nodes of the Moon, that is, the two points at which the orbit of the Moon intersects the ecliptic.
  • Of all the above, Ulysses is the only spacecraft whose orbit takes it large distances away from the ecliptic plane.
  • However, a non-inclined orbit need not be referenced only to an equatorial reference plane. If the plane of reference is the ecliptic plane, they are called an ecliptic orbit.
  • The ecliptic is the plane on which Earth orbits the Sun.
  • The dial also marks the position of the Sun on the ecliptic corresponds to the current date in the year.

  • In addition to lunisolar precession, the actions of the other planets of the Solar System cause the whole ecliptic to rotate slowly around an axis which has an ecliptic longitude of about 174° measured on the instantaneous ecliptic.
  • A position in the ecliptic coordinate system is thus typically specified "true equinox and ecliptic of date", "mean equinox and ecliptic of J2000.0", or similar.
  • Visibility is somewhat affected by observations being done from the ecliptic. The ecliptic is inclined 7° from the plane of the Sun's equator (latitude 0°).
  • Since all planets as well as the moon and the sun always move very closely along the virtual circle of the ecliptic, all these seven orbiting bodies are regularly passing through the Golden Gate of the Ecliptic.
  • Note that conjunctions in right ascension and ecliptic longitude need not take place on the same date.

  • To find the date, find the place where the hour hand or Sun disk intersects the ecliptic dial: this indicates the current star sign, the sun's current location on the ecliptic.
  • The equinoxes move westward along the ecliptic relative to the fixed stars, opposite to the yearly motion of the Sun along the ecliptic, returning to the same position approximately every 26,000 years.
  • There are two main classes of comet: short-period comets (also called ecliptic comets) and long-period comets (also called nearly isotropic comets).
  • The correction is small for objects at the poles of the ecliptic.
  • One definition of the tropical year would be the time required for the Sun, beginning at a chosen ecliptic longitude, to make one complete cycle of the seasons and return to the same ecliptic longitude.

  • Astronomical latitude is not to be confused with declination, the coordinate astronomers use in a similar way to specify the angular position of stars north/south of the celestial equator (see equatorial coordinates), nor with ecliptic latitude, the coordinate that astronomers use to specify the angular position of stars north/south of the ecliptic (see ecliptic coordinates).
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