Astronomy - MSN Encarta

Search Tags

Tags are important words found on this page. Blue tags were added by web users; yellow ones were extracted by our analysis tools.

Page Excerpt

The page excerpt is a few sentences from the page that try to summarize its meaning.

Earth’s entire night sky, or the celestial sphere . C2 a Altazimuth System One of the ways astronomers give the position of a celestial object is b...

Similar Pages

Pages that have similar content to this page.

Equator (astronomy) - MSN Encarta Equator (astronomy), in astronomy, the great circle in which the plane of the equator ...
Zodiacal constellations 2 Zodiac in astrology 2.1 Western zodiac 2.2 Indian zodiac 2.3 Chinese and other zodiacs 3 Zodia...
The primary unit of sidereal time is the sidereal day , which is subdivided into 24 sidereal hours. Each sidereal hour i...
The vernal equinox usually occurs on March 20 or 21 and marks the beginning of the spring season in the Northern Hemisph...
GoTo technology also allows telescope manufacturers to add equatorial tracking to mechanically simpler alt-azimuth teles...
The two points at which the ecliptic intersects the celestial equator are called nodes or equinoxes. The Sun is usually ...
Hellespont and are thought by many to be more likely possibilities for the eclipse Hipparchus used for his computations....

Collections

Collections of related pages that include this page.