nautical stars

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• Nautical

  ·adj Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill. ...

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• nautical

  Relating to navigation, sailors, or maritime affairs in general. ...

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• Stars

  The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the b...

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• stars

  A Southern pronunciation of the word stairs, like bar for bear; also heard in New England. ...

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• nautical almanac

  A book of the first necessity to navigators. (See ephemeris.) ...

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• nautical assessors

  Persons of nautical experience appointed to assist the judge of the admiralty and other courts in te...

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• nautical astronomy

  That part of the celestial science which treats of the planets and stars so far as relates to the pu...

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• nautical day

  This day commences at noon, twelve hours before the civil day, and ends at noon of the day following...

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• nautical mile

  (MEAN) = 6075·6 feet. ...

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• nautical tables

  Those especially computed for resolution of matters dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation ...

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• blazing stars

  The popular name of comets. ...

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• clock-stars

  A name for the nautical stars, which, from their positions having been very exactly ascertained, are...

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• falling stars

  Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...

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• greenwich stars

  Those used for lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris. ...

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• multiple stars

  When several stars appear in close proximity to each other, they are spoken of, collectively, as a m...

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• stars, fixed

  Those innumerable bodies bespangling the heavens from pole to pole, distinguishable from the planets...

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• temporary stars

  Those which have suddenly become visible, and after attaining considerable brightness, have as sudde...

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• variable stars

  Those which are found to exhibit periodical fluctuations of brightness; of which Algol and Mira Ceti...

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• magnitudes of stars

  The relative degrees of apparent size in which the fixed stars are arranged, and classed according t...

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• proper motion of the stars

  A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...

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