Celestial Sphere Definition

Celestial Sphere Sentence Examples

• The line of the equinoxes is the imaginary diameter of the celestial sphere which joins them.

• The ecliptic itself is the great circle in which this plane meets the celestial sphere.

• It is also defined, but not with absolute rigour, as the apparent path described by the sun around the celestial sphere as the earth performs its.

• The conception of the co-ordinates we have defined is facilitated by introducing that of the celestial sphere.

• Taking as origin the position of an observer, the direction of a heavenly body is defined by the point in which he sees it in the sky; that is to say, on the celestial sphere.