Is the moon in conjunction with the sun at the time of new moon, both luminaries having then the same longitude, or right ascension.
·noun The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; associat...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, in nautical astronomy, is when two bodies have the same longitude or right ascension. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses. II. Ecliptic ·adj Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the...
The great circle of the heavens which the sun appears to us to describe in the course of a year, in ...
Mercury or Venus is said to be in inferior conjunction, when it is situated in the same longitude as...
When an inferior planet is situated in the same longitude as the sun, and has that luminary between ...
Certain limits of latitude within which eclipses take place, and beyond which they cannot occur. ...
The angle between the planes of the ecliptic and the equator, or the inclination of the earth's equa...
The equinoctial and solstitial points; namely, the commencement of Aries and Libra, and of Cancer an...