Occultation: alternatives and connections

A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and th…

A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as…

The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a sta…

The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeti…

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids…

a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon

The science which treats of the celestial bodies, of their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constituti…

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from th…

Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

The meeting of two or more stars or planets in the same degree of the zodiac; as, the conjunction of the moon with the sun, or of Jupi…

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the ol…

An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's epicycle w…

A piece of metal placed on the muzzle, or near the trunnions, on the top of a piece of ordnance, to make the line of sight parallel to…

Having no certain course; roving about without a fixed destination; wandering; moving; -- hence, applied to the planets as distinguish…

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon.

Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music.

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologer…