ascending node

American  

noun

Astronomy.

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

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Example Sentences

He has Jupiter in the ascending node, Venus regarding in the sextile.

From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm

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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

When crossing the ecliptic from south to north the Moon is in its ascending node, and when crossing from north to south in its descending node.

From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel

The position of the ascending node, or the point where the comet crossed the terrestrial orbit.

From Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Verne, Jules

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 Galouye, Daniel F.