Vocabulary Word
Word: astronomical
Definition: enormously large or extensive
Definition: enormously large or extensive
Sentences Containing 'astronomical'
The place is stored with great variety of sextants, quadrants, telescopes, astrolabes, and other astronomical instruments.
Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1985.
His fields of specialty include active galactic nuclei, cosmology, and radio astronomical techniques.
The Givatayim Observatory was founded in 1968 by the Israeli Astronomical Association and the Givatayim municipality.
Since 1984 Dr. Igal Patel is the head of the observatory and of the Israeli Astronomical Association.
His research contributed substantially to the fact that Kassel became a center of the astronomical research.
In contrast to his prominent astronomical colleagues he fell into oblivion in the 17th century.
Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.
The expression "outer space" was used as an astronomical term by Alexander von Humboldt in 1845.
From 1947 until 1949 he was president of the Royal Astronomical Society.
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society on 10 May 1861.
It was discovered by the Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory in August 2008.
Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.
It is common in astronomy for objects to be given names, in accordance with accepted astronomical naming conventions.
The Prix Jules Janssen is the highest award of the French Astronomical Society.
The work is a description of an astronomical instrument which had been invented at Vienna in 1417.
Researchers have noted that several mounds are aligned according to astronomical events.
Yangju also has an astronomical observatory and planetarium that is open to the public.
The second thus defined is consistent with the ephemeris second, which was based on astronomical measurements.
She was a dedicated astrologist and especially enjoyed astronomical problems.
He is active in international astronomy, as a division past-president of the International Astronomical Union, and serves on visiting committees for several major astronomical institutions around the world.
A detailed description of the development of astronomical optical interferometry can be found here.
For details of individual instruments, see the list of astronomical interferometers at visible and infrared wavelengths.
This technique is the basis for astronomical interferometer arrays, which can make measurements of very small astronomical objects if the telescopes are spread out over a wide area.
Astronomical interferometers come in two types—direct detection and heterodyne.
Astronomical direct-detection interferometry.
It was later renamed Ishihara after Takahiro Ishihara, a former president of the Hiroshima Astronomical Society.
His astronomical publications involved him in financial difficulties, which the Literary Fund helped him to meet.
He was President, Division VI, International Astronomical Union, from 1994 to 1997 and was a council member of the Astronomical Society of Australia between 1993 and 1996.
The astronomical clock of Lund Cathedral, the "Horologium mirabile Lundense", was constructed "c." 1380.
The upper board of the clock is the astronomical clock.
In 1484 Walther introduced clocks driven by weights, their first use in astronomical determinations.
His printing press was used to produce some of the earliest astronomical publications.
It happens when there is no "nautical twilight" and only "astronomical twilight" occurs at the solar culmination.
The "astronomical polar night" is a period of continuous "night" where no "astronomical twilight" occurs.
Astronomical twilight happens when the sun is between twelve and eighteen degrees below the horizon and astronomical night when it is even lower.
The Beauvais Astronomical Clock is a nineteenth century astronomical clock in Beauvais Cathedral.
History and description.
In 1711 he became director of the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna, a position he held until his death.
Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2010.
In Cambridge Hopf worked on many mathematical and astronomical subjects.
The Perth Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Bickley.
The priorities set by this committee develop in response to recent discoveries by the astronomical community and based on theoretical predictions published in astronomical journals.
Testament to this is that he equipped the palace with its own astronomical observatory for the purposes of Gruber's School of Hydraulics and Mechanics.
In the locality of Punta Falcone is an astronomical observatory, created in 1976.
Close to Hoober Stand is the Hoober Observatory of the Mexborough Swinton Astronomical Society.
After World War II, he worked on astronomical instrumentation and positional astronomy.
Atkinson's mechanical skills led to a commission to design an astronomical clock for York Minster, the York Minster astronomical clock.
he acted as president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1920 and 1928.
He was also a former chair of the United States National Committee for the International Astronomical Union.
and past president of the American Astronomical Society.
