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• Ecliptic
  [[Image:Ecliptic1.png|left|thumb|400px||Fig. 1. The ecliptic is shown as a red circle. Winter and summer refer to the Northern hemispher ...The arrow on the Earth indicates the angle between the Earth axis and the ecliptic plane; it also gives the direction of the diurnal (daily) rotation of the E
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• Ecliptic/Definition
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• Ecliptic/Related Articles
  Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Ecliptic]]. Needs checking by a human.
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• Ecliptic
  [[Image:Ecliptic1.png|left|thumb|400px||Fig. 1. The ecliptic is shown as a red circle. Winter and summer refer to the Northern hemispher ...The arrow on the Earth indicates the angle between the Earth axis and the ecliptic plane; it also gives the direction of the diurnal (daily) rotation of the E
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• Conjunction (astronomy)
  ...another in [[space]]. Conjunctions between two bright objects close to the ecliptic, such as two bright planets, can be seen with the naked eye. When two objects always appear close to the [[ecliptic]]—such as two [[planet]]s, the [[Moon]] and a planet, or the [[Sun]] and
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• Antares
  ...[Spica]], and [[Regulus]] it is one of the four brightest stars near the [[ecliptic]]. The similarly-colored [[Aldebaran]] (α [[Taurus|Tauri]]) lies almost d
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• Great circle/Related Articles
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• Ecliptic/Related Articles
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• Chinese constellation/Related Articles
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• Right-hand rule/Related Articles
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• Latitude/Related Articles
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• Milky Way/Related Articles
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• Kuiper belt
  ...these trans-Neptunian bodies orbit the Sun within a thick band around the ecliptic plane of the solar system. For this reason it is largely believed that they Pluto has an eccentric orbit: it is inclined 17 degrees to the ecliptic plane and ranges from 29.7 AU from the Sun at perihelion (within the orbit
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• Year
  ...een successive vernal equinoxes. The mean tropical year (averaged over all ecliptic points) is 365.242 189 67 days (365d 5h 48min 45s) long.
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• Almagest
  ...simply converted Hipparchus's description of the location of each star to ecliptic coordinates and then shifted these values by a constant to account for prec
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• Sun/Related Articles
  {{r|Ecliptic}}
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• Universe/Related Articles
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• Year/Student Level
  ...een successive vernal equinoxes. The mean tropical year (averaged over all ecliptic points) is 365.242 189 67 days (365d 5h 48min 45s) long.
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• Equator
  ...rial plane makes an angle of 23° 26' with the ecliptic. See the article [[ecliptic]] for illustrations.
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• Chinese constellation
  In addition, for the Chinese, the region of sky passed through by the [[ecliptic]] is not divided into 12 [[zodiac|zodiacal constellations]], but into '''Tw
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• Uranus (planet)
  ...of the planet tilted just over 90 degrees with respect to the poles of the ecliptic (the plane of the planet's revolution about the Sun). Thus the rotational a
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• Moon
  ...eriod of 18.61 years during Earth's orbit around the Sun. The plane of the ecliptic in turn is itself about 23 degrees from the plane of the Earth's equator.<r
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• Copernican revolution (book)
  ...apparent motion of the Sun as seen from Earth; it introduces concepts as [[ecliptic]], winter/summer [[solstice]] and vernal/autumnal [[equinox]]. When the a ...ual orbit, whereas in reality it makes a constant angle with the invariant ecliptic. Therefore, Copernicus had to introduce an extra conical yearly motion to
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