Astronomy Glossary

absolute magnitude	accretion	active
alignment	anomaly	ascension
asterism	astrodynamics	astrometry
astronomer	astrophysics	autumnal equinox
barycenter	canal	celestial latitude
celestial longitude	celestial mechanics	come up
comet	conjunction	copernican system
culmination	date of reference	dec
declination	direct	egress
emersion	ephemeris time	epoch
equinoctial point	equinox	extragalactic nebula
go down	go under	ha
hour angle	hubble law	hubble's law
immersion	inclination of an orbit	inferior
inferior conjunction	ingress	kepler's law
kepler's law of planetary motion	limb	major planet
mean solar time	mean time	meteoroid
nebular	nebulous	node
nucleosynthesis	oort cloud	orbital plane
outer planet	primary	ptolemaic system
ra	radio astronomy	red shift
redshift	retrograde	right ascension
selenology	solar physics	star
stargaze	superior	superior conjunction
tdt	terrestrial dynamical time	terrestrial time
tt	uprise	variation
vernal equinox

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