-
stars closely aligned with the
solstitial colure: Pi Herculis,
Delta Aurigae, and
Theta Scorpii. This
makes the
solstitial colure point towards the North...
-
almanacs define the
solstices as the
moments when the Sun p****es
through the
solstitial colure, i.e. the
times when the
apparent geocentric celestial longitude...
- Press, p. 890, ISBN 978-0-8165-1789-3, The
cardinal directions … are "
solstitial" in that
places on the
horizon of
sunrise and
sunset on the solstices...
- and Libra, in the ecliptic. The
solstitial colure H, p****ing
through the
poles of the heaven, and
through the
solstitial points Cancer and Capricorn, in...
- The
Surya Siddhanta bridges this
difference by
juxtaposing the four
solstitial and
equinoctial points with four of the
twelve boundaries of the rashis...
- "the
vulture of the west",
which Augustus Henry Keane interpreted as
solstitial worship;
however these are now
thought to read "eastward" and "westward"...
- São Joāo - a
festival in the São Lázaro neighbourhood. In Denmark, the
solstitial celebration is
called sankthans or
sankthansaften ("St. John's Eve")....
-
quotes from Hipparchus' now-lost work
entitled "On the
Displacement of the
Solstitial and
Equinoctial Points" in the
seventh book of his 2nd
century astronomical...
- ISBN 978-0-674-03572-0. "The
reciprocal influences of the Saturnalia,
Germanic solstitial festivals, Christmas, and
Chanukkah are familiar,"
notes C.
Bennet Pascal...
- meridian, horizon, and
equatorial rings. The
second group contains ecliptic,
solstitial, and
equinoctial rings that turn as a unit. The
inner group contains one...
