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Diurnal aberration

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annual aberrationnoun(astronomy) A deviation due to the Earth's orbital motion.
aberrationnounThe act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
planetary aberrationnoun(astronomy) A deviation of where a planet appears to be, due to the motion of the planet during the time that the light reaches the Earth.
aberration of lightnoun(astronomy) A phenomenon that produces an apparent motion of celestial objects about their true positions, dependent on the velocity of the observer.
diurnal motionnoun(astronomy) The apparent westward rotation of the celestial sphere, along with the apparent westward revolution of celestial objects, around the celestial poles due to prograde (eastward) rotation of planet Earth relative to the seemingly fixed stars – completed once each sidereal day (about 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds).
variationnounThe act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
diurnal arcnoun(astrology) the path followed by a planet, point, or degree from its rising point to its setting point.
lateral aberrationnoun(optics) Deviation from the correct point of focus measured perpendicular to the axis.
longitudinal aberrationnoun(optics) Deviation from the correct point of focus measured parallel to the axis.
obliquitynounThe quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
anomalynounA deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
axial tiltnoun(physics, astronomy) The angle between the rotational axis and the orbital axis of an orbiting celestial object.
crown of aberrationnoun(astronomy) A spurious circle around the true circle of the Sun.
digressionnounAn aside, an act of straying from the main subject in speech or writing.
chandler wobblenounA small deviation in the Earth's axis of rotation relative to the solid earth.
sidereal daynoun(astronomy) One day of sidereal time; the time in which Earth rotates once around its axis, relative to the point of the vernal equinox (about 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds).
nutationnoun(astronomy) Any of several irregularities in the precession of the equinoxes caused by varying torque applied to the Earth by the Sun and the Moon.
periodic inequalitynoun(astronomy) A disturbance in the motion of a planet due to its position in its orbit relative to another planet.
librationnoun(astronomy) The apparent wobble or variation in the visible side of the Moon that permanently faces the Earth, allowing observers on Earth to see, over a period of time, slightly more than half of the lunar surface.
amplitudenounThe measure of the size of something, especially its width or breadth; largeness, magnitude.

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