ascending node

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noun

Astronomy.

1. the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north (opposed to descending node).

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ascending node

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 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

The ascending node is the point where it passes from the south to the north side of the ecliptic; the descending node is the opposite point, where the latitude changes from north to south.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher

On the longitude of the ascending node of the vortex on the lunar orbit. 4th.

From Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett

The scope showed the Queen was still there spatially, but the fuzziness of her outline indicated she was well out of danger—high up on the ascending node of the arc.

From Spillthrough by Daniel F. Galouye