Rating | Solver | Clue |
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SUN | Earth’s star | |
EMERSION | The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon. | |
PARALLAX | The apparent difference in position of a body (as the sun, or a star) as seen from some point on the earth's surface, and as seen from some oth... | |
FOLLOWING | (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small sta... | |
VENUS | One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from th... | |
DAY | The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two succ... | |
EQUATORIAL | An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel to the axi... | |
ECLIPSE | An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it... |