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ascending node

noun

, Astronomy.
  1. the node through which an orbiting body passes as it moves to the north ( descending node ).


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When passing to the north of the ecliptic, it is called the ascending node; when to the south of it, the descending node.

The Ráhu, the ascending node, is derived from the verb literally meaning to abandon, void, hence also black, darkness, shadow, etc., and is represented in mythology as having no body, the umbra of the astronomers.

The scope showed the Queen was still there spatially, but the fuzziness of her outline indicated she was well out of danger—high up on the ascending node of the arc.

He has Jupiter in the ascending node, Venus regarding in the sextile.

Indeed the "Dragon's Head," ☊, is the general sign for the ascending node of any orbit, whether of moon, planet or comet, and the "Dragon's Tail," ☋, for the descending node.

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