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When the geocentric ecliptic longitude of Venus coincides with that of the Sun, it is in conjunction with the Sun – inferior if Venus is nearer and superior if farther. . The distance between Venus and Earth varies from about 42 million km (at inferior conjunction) to about 258 million km (at superior conjuncti
The Ecliptic. The apparent path of the Sun's motion on the celestial sphere as seen from Earth is called the ecliptic. The ecliptic plane is tilted 23.5° with respect to the plane of the celestial equator since the Earth's spin axis is tilted 23.5° with respect to its orbit around the sun. The ecliptic plane intersects the celestial ...
When the geocentric ecliptic longitude of Venus coincides with that of the Sun, it is in conjunction with the Sun – inferior if Venus is nearer and superior if farther. . The distance between Venus and Earth varies from about 42 million km (at inferior conjunction) to about 258 million km (at superior conjuncti
conjunction coincides with one of its orbit’s nodes – that longitude where Venus passes through Earth’s orbital plane. Venus can be up to 9.6° from the Sun when viewed from Earth at an inferior conjunction. As the Sun has only an angular diameter of 0.5°, Venus can be seen up to 18 solar diameters above or below the Sun during an ordinary
Ecliptic longitude Ecliptic longitude or celestial longitude (symbols: heliocentric l, geocentric λ) measures the angular distance of an object along the ecliptic from the primary direction. Like right ascension in the equatorial coordinate system, the primary direction (0° ecliptic longitude) points from the Earth towards the Sun at the ...
The celestial equator is 0° DEC, and the poles are +90° and -90°. Right ascension (RA) is the celestial equivalent of longitude. RA can be expressed in degrees, but it is more common to specify it in hours, minutes, and seconds of time: the sky appears to turn 360° in 24 hours, or 15° in one hour. So an hour of RA equals 15° of sky rotation.
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The ecliptic longitude λ λ and the ecliptic latitude β β of a star X X are shown in figure VI.5 VI.5, which should be self explanatory. In order to convert between equatorial and ecliptic coordinates, the triangle to solve is triangle PKX PKX. The arc KX KX is 90∘ −β 90 ∘ − β and the angle PKX PKX is 90∘ −λ 90 ∘ − λ.
