How to Use "ecliptic" with Example Sentences
- 1. Attention was concentrated on the horizon and the ecliptic .
- 2. The ecliptic plane is defined as the imaginary plane containing the earth 's orbit around the sun .
- 3. Saturn still shines in the night though , farther eastward along the ecliptic plane .
- 4. Many european scholars have found it almost impossible to believe that a fully equatorial system of astronomy could have grown up without passing through an ecliptic ( zodiacal ) phase , yet that undoubtedly happened .
- 5. Four bright celestial beacons and a faint triangle of light follow the plane of the ecliptic as it arcs high through this southern hemisphere night skyscape .