Sentence examples for diameter of the moon from inspiring English sources

He hypothesizes that the "heralding sequences" are instructions to observe the apparent diameter of the Moon, and that the half-size superscripted crescents (orange) preceding the sixth night before and sixth night after the full moon represent the small apparent diameter at apogee which triggers intercalation.

For example, improved observations revealed that Pluto is only about two-thirds the diameter of the Moon (though still larger than Ceres).

Separated by a space less than the diameter of the moon, Jupiter and  Venus will make a stunning sight low in the western sky.

Comet Lovejoy, though, has surpassed earlier brightness forecasts and was reportedly better than the seventh magnitude last week, appearing through binoculars as a diffuse blob up to half the diameter of the Moon, with a brighter core around its nucleus.

At this time an observer on the Moon would see the Earth as a bright body, four times the diameter of the Moon as seen from Earth, almost completely illuminated by the Sun.

The Glast astronomers hope that with the superior angular resolution of the new telescope — less than a minute of arc, or about one-thirtieth the diameter of the Moon — they will identify the nature of those gamma-ray sources and perhaps discover thousands more.

Although Mars' moon Phobos appears about one third the angular diameter of the full moon as it appears from Earth, Deimos appears more or less star-like and appears only slightly brighter than Venus does from Earth.

That corresponds to 20 times the diameter of the full moon on the sky or to a length of 13,000 light-years in space.

When at its closest and brightest (19.24 GMT on the 15th, which is 3.24am on the 16th in Hong Kong) it will traverse a patch of sky about twice the diameter of the full moon every minute.In this section Tequila sunset It came from outer space Counting raindrops Till death do us part Reprints.

At the distance of Betelgeuse, by 960 years this shell would be 14 times the diameter of the full moon!

In Earth's sky, the planet moves about the diameter of the full moon every four months.