constellation


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Synonyms for constellation

a configuration of stars as seen from the earth

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Miss Longnecker must be right; it was Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia, and not Billy Jackson.
The eye took in the firmament from the Southern Cross to the North Star, those two constellations which in 12,000 years, by reason of the succession of equinoxes, will resign their part of the polar stars, the one to Canopus in the southern hemisphere, the other to Wega in the northern.
`Through that long night I held my mind off the Morlocks as well as I could, and whiled away the time by trying to fancy I could find signs of the old constellations in the new confusion.
He had wilfully stayed the short summer night there, wrapped in his coat and rug, watching the constellations on their path down the sky until `the bride of old Tithonus' rose out of the sea, and the mountains stood sharp in the dawn.
The sun rose in the undoubted east and set in the undoubted west, corrected and proved, of course, by declination, deviation, and variation; and the nightly march of the stars and constellations proceeded across the sky.
"A tut for your constellations, man; do you see the star I mean?
"Try the test I told thee of, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't mind any other, for thou knowest nothing about colures, lines, parallels, zodiacs, ecliptics, poles, solstices, equinoxes, planets, signs, bearings, the measures of which the celestial and terrestrial spheres are composed; if thou wert acquainted with all these things, or any portion of them, thou wouldst see clearly how many parallels we have cut, what signs we have seen, and what constellations we have left behind and are now leaving behind.
Overhead, as he looked up through this rift in the wood, shone great golden stars looking unfamiliar and grouped in strange constellations. He was sure they were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance.
The moon shone in the midst of the constellations of the zenith.
Constellation, a special purpose acquisition company, was formed by Rajiv Sarman Shukla.
UBS analyst Sean King maintains a Neutral rating on Constellation Brands with a $212 price target.
Constellation intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to redeem prior to maturity its outstanding 3.875% senior notes due 2019 in the aggregate principal amount of $400.0 million and for general corporate purposes.
China Central Television, a state broadcaster, (https://tecnoticias.net/2019/07/03/china-planea-lanzar-una-constelacion-de-satelites-propulsados-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bpor-ia/) revealed that the AI-controlled constellation is set to be released by 2021.
NSR's industry standard report on the market for and viability of satellite constellations worldwide: Satellite Constellations: A Critical Assessment, 2nd Edition (SC2) released recently has revealed a number of industry insights.