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What is the exact time of sun stay in each zodiac every year on sidereal year duration?
I tried to reverse engineer from astro-chart times at which sun stays in a zodiac.
Here is the list.
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How can I get the exact time of each zodiac every year?
I want to make a calculator for Chinese New Year calendar. There is a rule that a leap year happens if the eclipse happens before each zongqi (equivalent to the middle of zodiac sign, ie. 15º, 45º, ...
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Is the equinox Sun always at the same zodiac sign in the ecliptic belt?
During the year the Sun moves along the ecliptic passing all the signs of the zodiac belt, in my understanding. This means that it takes ~1 month to go from one zodiac sign to the next.
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What is the great (platonic?) year? How could it be explained in laymen's terms?
How could a great year be explained in laymen's terms?
According to the definition in NASA's Aerospace Dictionary it is a complete cycle of the equinoxes around the ecliptic that completes in 26000 ...
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What is meant by sun's path through zodiac
I read somewhere that sun's daily course and complete cycle is visible in the ecliptic belt by zodiac constellations.
I didn't understand what that means closest I could find online is: https://www....
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Simple rule to find some of the zodiac constellations after sunset?
How do I find some of the constellations of the zodiac without remembering their locations on the sky?
I think it should be quite simple if you are located in the northern hemisphere and you know
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What are the RAs of the boundaries between traditional zodiacal signs?
I'm trying to figure out at what right ascension (RA) — not celestial longitude — the sun enters the various traditional (Western) astrological signs of the Zodiac; but I can't figure out how to ...
