What's the difference between ecliptic and ultrazodiacal?
Ecliptic
Definition:
(a.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.
(a.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.
(a.) Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.
(a.) Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.
Example Sentences:
(1) I lost interest in Ecliptic about 20,000 words in, and UoW just sort of shouldered it out of the way.
(2) • 111 SW 5th Avenue, portlandcitygrill.com Ecliptic Brewing Facebook Twitter Pinterest More than a few locals I spoke to referred to John Harris, who started Ecliptic in 2013, as a “legend”.
(3) Ecliptic is near the Fremont Bridge in the Mississippi district and the cavernous bar-restaurant is home to its brewery (tours available Mon-Tue, Thur-Fri).
(4) "There are a wealth of fantastically interesting targets for astrophysics that can be observed in the ecliptic plane, which were not accessible in the original Kepler field, notably brighter clusters of stars – where the common origins and distances to these stars make the clusters excellent laboratories for testing our understanding of stars – and young, star-forming regions," said Chaplin.
Ultrazodiacal
Definition:
(a.) Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac.