Equinox Sentence Examples

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  • There were a lot of tourists in town, probably for the autumn equinox, which drew people from around the world every year.

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  • The autumn equinox is almost upon us.

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  • At the time of the equinox it is commonly believed that strong gales may be expected.

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  • This would give a further extension backwards of over woo years, during which the equinox might have occurred in the month of the Ram.

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  • They were divided on the same principle; each opened at the spring equinox; the first Arab sign Sharatan was strictly equivalent to the Hindu Acvini; and eighteen constellations in each were virtually coincident.

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  • In Order To Restore The Vernal Equinox To The 25Th Of March, The Place It Occupied In The Time Of Numa, He Ordered Two Extraordinary Months To Be Inserted Between November And December In The Current Year, The First To Consist Of Thirty Three, And The Second Of Thirty Four Days.

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  • The equinox is fixed on the 21st of March, though the sun enters Aries generally on the 20th of that month, sometimes even on the 19th.

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  • The Intercalary Month, Veadar, Is Introduced In Embolismic Years In Order That Passover, The 15Th Day Of Nisan, May Be Kept At Its Proper Season, Which Is The Full Moon Of The Vernal Equinox, Or That Which Takes Place After The Sun Has Entered The Sign Aries.

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  • The Vikram era is reckoned from the vernal equinox of the year 57 B.C., but there is no evidence that that date corresponds with any event in the life of an actual king.

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  • The actual equinox is defined by first taking the conception of a fictitious point called the Mean Equinox, which moves at a nearly uniform rate, slow varying, however, from century to century.

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  • As the creator of the world, the New Year's festival, known as Zagmuk and celebrated at the time of the vernal equinox, was sacred to him.

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  • The vernal equinox is taken as the initial point on the sphere from which co-ordinates are measured in the equatorial and ecliptic systems. Referring to fig.

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  • I, the initial line OX is defined as directed toward the vernal equinox, at which point it intersects the celestial sphere.

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  • The other two systems, including the vernal equinox, are fixed on the celestial sphere, and so seem to us to perform a diurnal revolution from east towards west.

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  • Tomorrow, on the equinox, it'll be so powerful, it will sing to you.

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  • Equinox The two points at which the Sun crosses the celestial equator in its yearly path in the sky.

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  • The routine sla_PLANET produces heliocentric position and velocity in the form of equatorial for the mean equator and equinox of J2000.

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  • Bakos et al. calculated the equatorial coordinates for epoch and equinox 2000.0 using their astrometry and proper motion measurements.

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  • We choose a fixed point on the celestial equator, called the vernal equinox, or the First Point of Aries.

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  • Around March 21, the sun is in the middle of its swing and will rise at due east, marking the vernal equinox.

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  • The same happens at the spring or vernal equinox on the 21st March.

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  • September 21 was the " official " date of the autumnal equinox.

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  • Dec The declination of the object in the selected equinox.

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  • Ecliptic and equatorial co-ordinates are referred to the mean equinox of a given epoch.

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  • From the autumn equinox the setting sun moves gradually south along the western horizon.

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  • In fact, on the days of the spring and fall equinox the length of daylight is actually longer than darkness by several minutes.

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  • The ears of wheat grain issuing from the tail of the bull shows the time is the spring equinox.

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  • On the Equinox weekend, more than 185 photographers around the world created VR panoramas with the common theme of Bridges.

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  • As the earth's axis slowly precesses, the time in the orbit at which the equinox occurs also moves slowly round the sun.

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  • The displacement of the position of the First Point of Aries with time is called the precession of the equinox.

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  • The other are major sabbats which happen approximately halfway between an equinox and solstice.

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  • Bemused tourists watched 450 Microsoft employees, customers and guests file into London's Equinox Club.

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  • In civil affairs, and in the regulation of the jubilees and sabbatical years, the Jews still adhere to the ancient year, which begins with the month Tisri, about the time of the autumnal equinox.

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  • According To The Best Determinations Of Modern Astronomy (Le Verrier'S Solar Tables, Paris, 1858, P. 102), The Mean Geocentric Motion Of The Sun In Longitude, From The Mean Equinox During A Julian Year Of 365.25 Days, The Same Being Brought Up To The Present Date, Is 360 0 27" 685.

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  • The Restoration Of The Equinox To Its Former Place In The Year And The Correction Of The Intercalary Period, Were Attended With No Difficulty; But Lilius Had Also To Adapt The Lunar Year To The New Rule Of Intercalation.

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  • Use the ra, dec, and (optionally) equinox qualifiers to specify the output image map 's center.

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  • An instance is given, in L' Art de verifier les dates, of a date in which the year is reckoned from the 18th of March; but it is probable that this refers to the astronomical year, and that the 18th of March was taken for the day of the vernal equinox.

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  • All that is certainly known about the antiquity of the sieu is that they were well established in the 3rd century B.C. Their initial point at the autumnal equinox marked by Kio (Spica Virginis) suits a still later date; and there is no valid evidence that the modern series resulted from the rectification of an older superannuated arrangement, analogous to the Krittika sequence of nakshatras.

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  • If the Paschal full moon was, as in later Christian times, the first after the spring equinox, the difficulty would be reduced to the question on what day the equinox was reckoned.

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  • Sacrifices on an exceptionally large scale were held at Upsala and Leire every nine years, at the former place about the time of the spring equinox, at the latter in the early part of January.

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  • The ephors were elected annually, originally no doubt by the kings, later by the people; their term of office began with the new moon after the autumnal equinox, and they had an official residence (Oop€Iov) in the Agora.

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  • Bemused tourists watched 450 Microsoft employees, customers and guests file into London 's Equinox Club.

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  • Exactly 60 days after the Spring Equinox, on May 20, the zenith passage of the sun takes place over Chichen Itza.

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  • The sign is represented by amethysts and diamonds, and it falls on the vernal equinox.

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  • The sign of Virgo ends at the time of the equinox.

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  • For those looking for a symbolic tattoo, a representation of the equinox with images of the sun and the planet Earth itself can be a great way of illustrating the constellation.

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  • Instead, the Babylonian New Year was centered around the first new moon that appeared after the Vernal Equinox, which was the first day of spring.

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  • We only have a couple of days until the autumn equinox.

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  • The Taconic Mountains rise in very irregular masses to1500-2000ft., and reach their maximum elevation in Mount Equinox at 3816 ft.

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  • Briefly, it may be explained here that Easter day is the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox.

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  • By September food and ammunition were getting scarce, a large relieving force was expected from Sicily, and Piali became restive, on the approach of the equinox, for the safety of his galleys.

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  • Before the departure of the Israelites from Egypt their year commenced at the autumnal equinox; but in order to solemnize the memory of their deliverance, the month of Nisan or Abib, in which that event took place, and which falls about the time of the vernal equinox, was afterwards regarded as the beginning of the ecclesiastical or legal year.

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  • At Tyre the year was counted from the 19th of our October, at Gaza from the 28th of the same month, and at Damascus from the vernal equinox.

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  • An ancient Chinese law, moreover, prescribed the regularization of weights and measures at the spring equinox.

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  • Positive proof of the high antiquity of the Hindu lunar zodiac is nevertheless afforded by the undoubted fact that the primitive series opened with Krittika (the Pleiades) as the sign of the vernal equinox.

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  • The modern nakshatras are twenty-seven equal ecliptical divisions, the origin of which shifts, like that of the solar signs, with the vernal equinox.

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  • But this relation was not, it would seem, regulated by the date, real or supposed, of the equinox.

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  • Although The Julian Method Of Intercalation Is Perhaps The Most Convenient That Could Be Adopted, Yet, As It Supposes The Year Too Long By Ii Minutes 14 Seconds, It Could Not Without Correction Very Long Answer The Purpose For Which It Was Devised, Namely, That Of Preserving Always The Same Interval Of Time Between The Commencement Of The Year And The Equinox.

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  • It Implies A Year Differing In Excess From The True Year Only By 19.45 Sec., While The Gregorian Year Is Too Long By 26 Sec. It Produces A Much Nearer Coincidence Between The Civil And Solar Years Than The Gregorian Method; And, By Reason Of Its Shortness Of Period, Confines The Evagations Of The Mean Equinox From The True Within Much Narrower Limits.

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  • In The Calendar, For Example, Which Was Attempted To Be Introduced In France In 1 793, The Beginning Of The Year Was Fixed At Midnight Preceding The Day In Which The True Autumnal Equinox Falls.

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  • But Supposing The Instant Of The Sun'S Entering Into The Sign Libra To Be Very Near Midnight, The Small Errors Of The Solar Tables Might Render It Doubtful To Which Day The Equinox Really Belonged; And It Would Be In Vain To Have Recourse To Observation To Obviate The Difficulty.

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  • The Jews Celebrated Their Passover On The 14Th Day Of The First Month, That Is To Say, The Lunar Month Of Which The Fourteenth Day Either Falls On, Or Next Follows, The Day Of The Vernal Equinox.

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  • In Order To Terminate Dissensions, Which Produced Both Scandal And Schism In The Church, The Council Of Nicaea, Which Was Held In The Year 325, Ordained That The Celebration Of Easter Should Thenceforth Always Take Place On The Sunday Which Immediately Follows The Full Moon That Happens Upon, Or Next After, The Day Of The Vernal Equinox.

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  • The dry season, which is called the verano, or summer, is also broken by a short rainy spell called the inviernillo (little winter) or " cordonazo de San Francisco, which follows the September equinox.

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  • The problem is greatly complicated by the fact that the equator and equinox, to which the observed positions of the stars must be referred, are not stationary in space, and in fact the movements of these planes of reference can only be determined by a discussion of the observations of stars.

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  • The new arrangement was regarded as beginning on the 22nd of September 1792, this day being chosen because on it the republic was proclaimed and because it was in this year the day of the autumnal equinox.

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  • Considering the position of the vernal equinox, and also of a star on the celestial sphere, it will be seen that the interval between the transits of these two points across the meridian may be used to measure the right ascension of a star, since the latter amounts to FIG.

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  • Any one of five such directions may be chosen, that of the sun, the fixed stars, the equinox,.

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  • At the close of evening twilight the angle is greatest about three weeks before the vernal equinox.

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  • We'll need all their magics on the autumn equinox.

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  • Ever since then, Easter Day has been celebrated on the Sunday after the first full moon following the Spring Equinox.

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  • By Giving A Greater Or Less Number Of Days To The Intercalary Month, The Pontiffs Were Enabled To Prolong The Term Of A Magistracy Or Hasten The Annual Elections; And So Little Care Had Been Taken To Regulate The Year, That, At The Time Of Julius Caesar, The Civil Equinox Differed From The Astronomical By Three Months, So That The Winter Months Were Carried Back Into Autumn And The Autumnal Into Summer.

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  • In The Course Of A Few Centuries, However, The Equinox Sensibly Retrograded Towards The Beginning Of The Year.

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  • The fables of the phoenix and of the conduct of the wild ass and the ape at the time of the equinox owe their origin to astronomical symbols belonging to the.

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  • This diminution of pressure, which continues as the heat increases till it reaches its maximum in July soon after the solstice, is followed by the corresponding development of the south-west monsoon; and as the barometric pressure is gradually restored, and becomes equalized within the tropics soon after the equinox in October, with the general fall of temperature north of the equator, the south-west winds fall off, and are succeeded by a north-east monsoon, which is developed during the winter months by the relatively greater atmospheric pressure which then occurs over Asia, as compared with the equatorial region.

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  • By This Regulation The Vernal Equinox Which Then Happened On The 11Th Of March Was Restored To The 21St.

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  • It is accordingly quite possible that a full moon may arrive after the true equinox, and yet precede the 21st of March.

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  • Instead, However, Of Employing The Golden Numbers And Epacts For The Determination Of Easter And The Movable Feasts, It Was Resolved That The Equinox And The Paschal Moon Should Be Found By Astronomical Computation From The Rudolphine Tables.

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  • The true equinox then moves around the mean equinox in a period equal to that of the moon's nodes.

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  • Near the vernal equinox the case is reversed, the interval between two risings of the nearly full moon being at its maximum, and between two settings at its minimum.

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  • Near the autumnal equinox this angle is at a minimum; hence the phenomenon of the " harvest moon," when for several successive days the difference of times of rising on one day and the next may be only from 15 to 20 minutes.

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  • About the 21st of March, the vernal equinox, a festival is held in honour of agriculture, when planting begins.

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  • At the autumn equinox, the gate is weakest.

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  • In Order To Restore The Equinox To Its Former Place, Pope Gregory Xiii.

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