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

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

It is merely the ascending node in astronomy wherein alone the eclipses can take place.

From India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones

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

The Ráhu, the ascending node, is derived from the verb literally meaning to abandon, void, hence also black, darkness, shadow, etc., and is represented in mythology as having no body, the umbra of the astronomers.

From Phallic Miscellanies Facts and Phases of Ancient and Modern Sex Worship, as Illustrated Chiefly in the Religions of India by Hargrave Jennings

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