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Irving's catechism of astronomy (1905)

Irving, [Christopher], d. 1856. [from old catalog], Ortmann, Anselm. [from old catalog] · Baltimore, Md., New York, J. Murphy company · leaf 151

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lar distance along thehorizon from the east or west point, A2Jexof the suns way—A point in the heavenstowards which the whole solar system is moving; it isin Hercules. Aphelion is the place of a planets orbit whenfarthest from the sun. 126 APPENDIX 11. Apogee, the point in the moons or a planets… … oppositionFig. SB—Aspects Of the Planets. Aspects of a planet, its positions with reference tothe sun as viewed from the earth. The principalaspects are: Conjunction, c5, when the planet ap-pears close to the sun; opposition, §, when the planetis in opposite direction from the sui? md comes to the…

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