ascending node
Americannoun
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In June, the moon is seen below the sun, passing upward to the ascending node, and beyond the limits within which eclipses can occur.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Gorressio.799.Sinhiká is the mother of Ráhu the dragon's head or ascending node, the chief agent in eclipses.800.According to De Gubernatis, the author of the very learned, ingenious, and interesting though too fanciful Zoological Mythology.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
In this way it has been found that the inclination of the plane is 1° 35' 31", and that the longitude of the ascending node is 102° 57' 30".
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant
The Cluster Queen's outline on the scope became sharp and then faded into fuzziness once more as the Fleury passed it hyperspatially along the ascending node of the arc.
From Spillthrough by Daniel F. Galouye
He has Jupiter in the ascending node, Venus regarding in the sextile.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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