Sentence examples for position in the sky from inspiring English sources

Have we changed position in the sky?

At mid-latitudes the sun never rises to the near-vertical position in the sky as it does in the tropics.

Engineers are also investigating a second, apparently unrelated glitch: The rover thinks the Sun's position in the sky is four degrees off from the actual position.

The engineers are also investigating a second, apparently unrelated glitch: the rover thinks the Sun's position in the sky is four degrees off the actual position.

Equatorial mounts are attractive because they allow the telescope to follow a position in the sky as the Earth rotates by moving the antenna about a single axis parallel to the Earth's axis of rotation.

The Moon's orbit is tilted by about five degrees from this plane, and hence its position in the sky deviates from the ecliptic more than those of the other planets.

He was especially attracted to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, an annual handbook for astronomers, containing predicted positions in the sky of the principal celestial objects and other astronomical phenomena.

By measuring the star at different positions in the sky, the astronomers were able to determine that the diameter changed (if it were a perfect sphere, the diameter would be the same in all the measurements).

Since their discovery almost 30 years ago, over 1000 of these bursts have been observed at random positions in the sky.

Soon thereafter she started working for the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office, computing the positions in the sky of the planet Venus.

The current arrangement of data acquisition (DAQ) systems at the South Pole allows the collection of meteors in a configuration similar to the previous meteor radar system that operated at the South Pole in the mid 1990s while also using an interferometer to accurately determine the meteor positions in the sky, which enables the determination of the vertical structure of the observed waves.