Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated at the point in the heavens opposite the sun, as the center of the rainbow, or the ‘gegenschein.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180° distant from the sun.
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- adjective astronomy
opposite to thesun (from the Earth)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I didn't witness the circle of darkness, growing from the antisolar point like the mouth of a coal-black cosmic worm, gaping to swallow the world.
Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Quarantine 1 - Greg Egan Blue Tyson 2010
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I didn't witness the circle of darkness, growing from the antisolar point like the mouth of a coal-black cosmic worm, gaping to swallow the world.
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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If you were in an airplane, the antisolar point would be the shadow of the airplane below you.
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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Yes, the center of the rainbow's circle is the antisolar point.
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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David, yes, that drawing looks right except that the line from the sun to the back of the viewer's head should be aligned with the line from the viewer to the antisolar point.
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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Is the center of the circle of the rainbow the antisolar point?
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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The framed picture is from your view, where the dot in the head of your shadow is the line going from C, the antisolar point, straight into your eye?
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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The antisolar point the point 180 degrees opposite the sun is outside the frame of the picture, just to the right of the flock of crows.
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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Or anywhere you're standing, the antisolar point is wherever you see the shadow of your own head.
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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Is the 42 degree then from the line between the solar and antisolar point, that would go from behind the viewer straight into the picture, so to speak, making the 42 degree go 'upward'?
Alexander’s Dark Band James Gurney 2008
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