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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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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

The point E, where Venus crosses the plane of the earth's orbit, is called the ascending node.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

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 Galouye, Daniel F.

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)

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 Bassnett, Thomas