Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 177
ONGATION AND CONJUNCTION. [§226 we watch long enough (i.e., for several years) we shall findthat it keeps up this oscillating motion all the time, the lengthof its eastward swing being always greater than that of thecorresponding westward one. All the planets, without excep-tion, behave alike in… … Greatest E. Elmigation Greatest W. Elongation OppositionFig. 46.—Planetary Configurations. the stars, but upon, its position in the sky with reference tothe suns place. If it is very near the sun, it will be abovethe horizon only by day, and generally we cannot see it. TheElongation of a planet is…
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