colure
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Caph is equidistant from the Pole, and exactly opposite the star Megres in Ursa Major; with α Andromedæ and γ Pegasi it marks the equinoctial colure.
From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
He is now advancing among the stars, and will soon be again upon the equinoctial colure.
Note the star μ, which serves to point out the Winter Solstice, where the solstitial colure intersects the ecliptic.
From A Field Book of the Stars by William Tyler Olcott
For some reason, the equator, the colure, the zenith and the poles were all marked out by these serpentine or draconic forms.
From The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
And as the equinoctial colure passed through the middle of Aries, when that sphere was constructed, he infers, by calculations of their retrograde motion from their place then till the year A.D.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
