A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 143
cliptic) wereuniform, its motion in right ascen-sion would be variable. If the trueand fictitious suns started togetherat the equinox, they would indeedbe together at the solstices and atthe other equinox, because it is just Effect of Obliquity of Ecliptic in producing ., orv0 ~ . , Equation of… … EQUATION OF TIME. 131 This is best seen by taking a celestial globe and marking on the eclip-tic a point, m, half-way between the vernal equinox and the solstice,and also marking a point n on the equator, 45° from the equinox. Itwill at once be seen that the former point, m in Fig. 63,l is west of…
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