ascension
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9.4
- noun
- /əˈsɛnʃən/
- Specialized
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ascensión
- During the night, the ascension of Mars was a spectacular sight for all the stargazers.
- right ascension
- ascension and declination
- coordinates of ascension
Examples
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All I gotta do.... change each of the coordinates to make up for the difference in right Ascension....
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Obviously, it's not in the right ascension and declination on the sky.
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At that moment, my local sidereal time would match the right ascension of that star.
Academic text (2002) -
For example, coordinates of right ascension and declination of celestial objects can be projected onto the dome.
Academic text (1993) -
24 hours, at least in the modern definition, is the length of the solar day—the time required for the apparent motion of the Sun to return it to the same right ascension.
Blog text (11) -
The coordinates are celestial coordinates; right ascension is the celestial longitude and declination is the celestial latitude.
Academic text (1990) -
I am in the southern skies, at right ascension 19h50m45.6s and declination -54°49'12" -- about halfway between the stars Eta Ophiuchi and Alpha Pavo.
Blog text (1) -
As night fell, the stars began their ascension above the horizon, illuminating the sky.
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The telescope captured the ascension of the distant star as it rose above the tree line.
Synonyms
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3.4
An upward movement to a higher position
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4.2
To move upward, either by climbing or by reaching a higher position
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.4
An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
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6.5
A Christian holiday when people remember Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
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6.7
An event when Jesus leaves Earth and goes up to heaven forty days after he comes back to life
A Christian belief about Jesus rising to heaven on the 40th day after he came back to life
A Christian holiday marking Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ascension comes from the same Latin parts ad- and scandere, which mean 'to' and 'to climb'. So in astronomy an ascension is the 'climbing up' of a star or planet above the horizon, the moment it appears in the sky.