Culmination The instant when a celestial body crosses the meridian; an object culminates when it reaches its highest point above the observers horizon.
Culmination- the maximum altitude of a celestial body from the celestial equator
Dark adaptation- the process by which the human eye increases sensitivity under conditions of low, or none, illumination ...
culmination (of the sun): the moment when the sun (or other celestial body) reaches its highest altitude (or this position on the celestial sphere) in its diurnal path. For bodies with a fixed declination, it is the same as the superior transit.
Culmination. The maximum altitude that a celestial object attains above the horizon.
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Culmination
(a) The instant at which a celestial object crosses the meridian.
(b) Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian; also called "meridian passage".
culmination: the moment when a celestial object crosses the meridian and is thus as its highest above the horizon.
CULMINATION
Culmination is the highest altitude that a celestial object attains above the horizon (as seen from Earth); an object culminates as it crosses the observer's .
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The culmination of events that led to World War II are generally understood to be the 1939 Invasion of Poland of Poland by Nazi Germany and the 1937 Second_Sino-Japanese_War of the Republic of China by the Empire of Japan....
Viking was the culmination of a series of missions to explore the planet Mars; they began in 1964 with Mariner 4, and continued with the Mariner 6 and 7 flybys in 1969, and the Mariner 9 orbital mission in 1971 and 1972.
Culmination.
An object is said to culminate when it reaches its highest point in the sky. For northern observers, this occurs when the object is due South. For southern observers when it is due North..
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lower culmination (NASA SP-7, 1965) = lower transit. lower limb (NASA SP-7, 1965) That half of the edge of the apparent disk of a celestial body having the least altitude; in contrast with the upper limb, ...
The culmination of Leibniz's approach to logic is, arguably, the algebraic logic of Ernst Schröder and the modal logic founded by Clarence Irving Lewis.
The moon landings were the culmination of a fraught space race between the Americans and the Russians. Both nations threw the kitchen sink at trying to get a man on the moon first.
Newton's development of the unifying law of gravity was also the culmination of a process of Occam's Razor in action. From Ptolemy to Newton, the theories of how the planets move got simpler and more powerful as time went on.
Not the culmination of ancient prophecy, but none less mystical, Earth's small Moon will be executing a slow slide past the enormous Sun.
Since circumpolar stars never set (by definition), they have two transit points, an upper culmination when the stars are highest in the sky, and a lower culmination when the constellation is nearer the horizon.
The publication, in 1687, of Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by English scientist Sir Issac Newton was the culmination of a reduction philosophy of science that used force and action to explain the fundamentals of motion/energy, ...
The landing of the first humans on the Moon in 1969 is seen by many as the culmination of the space race.
hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star. Shak.
Centaurus is a magnificent sight on a balmy spring night (it reaches culmination on 30 March) or a pleasant fall evening if you live in the Southern hemisphere. Centaurus is truly a jewel of the southern sky.
RT: I really wish JFK had lived to see the culmination of his speech. I especially enjoyed the Apollo program, maybe because of its history - hard to say.
Its culmination at the winter solstice was marked by celebration in Hawaii, where it was known as Ka'ulua, "Queen of Heaven".
Southern location of this object makes it impossible to observe from anywhere in Canada with the exception of southernmost Western Ontario where it just clears the horizon during culmination.
Interval between two successive culminations of the Sun - i.e., the period from apparent noon to apparent noon. The apparent Solar day is longest in late December. [H76]
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The Pleiades' midnight culmination, which happened but once a year, was a sure sign that the winter solstice -- the shortest day of the year -- was only one month away. The Pleiades watched over the season of short days and long nights.
30pm as darkness falls, well past culmination in the northwestern sky. There will be about a two and a half hour observing window before M101 become less than ideally placed in the north-west and only 30 degrees up.
The culmination of the Netherlandish school was in the music of the Italian composer, Palestrina.
a planet's moon across the disc of the parent planet (iii) The passage of a planetary feature (such as Jupiter's Great Red Spot) across the central meridian of the planet. (iv) The passage of an object across the observer's meridian (see culmination).
The Lion, as the symbol of fire, L represented the culmination of the solar heat. In the sixth month, the descent of Ishtar to Hades in search vireo.
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