Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 184
the Sun, sistere = tocause to stand still). Its right-ascension is VI hours. APPARENT MOTION OF TEE SUN. 163 From June 21 to September 22 the Sun remains northof the equator, but its declination grows less and lessduring these months. Finally on September 23 the Suncrosses the equator once more… … Fig. 101.—The Celestial Sphere with .the Equator (AB)and the Ecliptic (CD). P is the north pole of the celestial equator ; Q is the north pole of theSuns apparent path, the ecliptic. the zero of right-ascensions). After September 22 anduntil the succeeding March the Sun is in the southern halfof…
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