"star" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Polaris is a circumpolar star, and so it is always seen nearly exactly in the direction of true north.
- Groombridge used the instrument to determine the positions of over 4000 circumpolar stars.
- One approaches the Emperor from the south, thus placing him in front of the circumpolar stars.
- In many ancient religions, the northern circumpolar stars were associated with darkness, death and the underworld of the dead.
- The sailor replies with his description of the use of circumpolar stars to navigate by.
- To navigate along a degree of latitude a sailor would have needed to find a circumpolar star above that degree in the sky.
- The star Canopus, second brightest in the sky, is a circumpolar star for most southern latitudes.
- Chinese used circumpolar stars to determine the north-south axis of settlements.
- Thus northern circumpolar stars move counterclockwise around the North Star.
- With a declination of -79 , this is a circumpolar star for much of the southern hemisphere.
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