...Rahu's head marks the ascending, Ketu, thetail, the descending node... 
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Andif joined into a solid ring its node would regress; and it would do so, onlymore slowly, if encumbered by the spherical part of the earth’s mass...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...Just how many days' motion theearth may be away from the node and still permit an eclipseis shown in the following brief table of eclipse limits...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...After another18 years, at the second repetition, the earthis a day farther from the node than at first,and the eclipse differs still more in character,etc...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...The point where the orbit of the moon penetrates the planeof the ecliptic is called a node...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...An exactcoincidence of Earth, Moon, and Sun, in a straightline at a Node is not necessary to ensure aneclipse of the Sun...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...The other fact is to the Sun startingcoincident with one of the Moon’s Nodes, returnson the Ecliptic to the same Node in 346...
George Chambers 「The Story of Eclipses」
...A partial eclipse of the moon will usually occur about afortnight before or after a total eclipse of the sun, sincethe full moon will then be within the eclipse limit at theopposite node...
George C. Comstock 「A Text-Book of Astronomy」
...The point E,where Venus crosses the plane of the earth's orbit, is called theascending node...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...The galactic longitude (l) is reckoned from the ascending node ofthe Milky Way on the equator, which is situated in the constellationAquila...
Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier 「Lectures on Stellar Statistics」
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