A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 376
ngs are parallel to the equatorof the planet, which is inclined about 27° to its orbit, and about 28°to the plane of the ecliptic, the two nodes of the ring being in longi-tude 166° and 346°, in the constellations of Aquarius and Leo. Nowiu the planets revolution around the sun, the plane of the… … Fig. 183. —The Phases of Saturns Rings. passes through the earth, we see it edgewise; and twice at its maxi-mum width, when it is at the points half-way between the nodes. Theangle of inclination being 28°, the apparent width of the ring at themaximum is just about half its length. The last…
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