The forms on earth, are imperfect imitations ( εικών, ikon: image ) of the celestial world of numbers.

* Atlas ( mythology ), a Titan who bore the spheres of the heavens ; inspiring the widely used image of a man carrying a celestial sphere on his back or shoulders ( also known as Atlas Telamon or " enduring Atlas ")

For example, when a sextant is used on a moving ship, the image of both horizon and celestial object will move around in the field of view.

Astrophotography, the photography of celestial objects, began in 1840 when John William Draper took an image of the Moon using the daguerreotype process.

The first image shows the celestial sphere from the outside, with the constellations in mirror image.

Images contain an implicit Cartesian coordinate system that describes the location of each pixel in the image, but scientific uses usually require working in ' world ' coordinates, for example the celestial coordinate system.

The provincial seal is an image of Indra atop his celestial white elephant, Airavata which is based on the design found on a famous Khmer temple in the province.

For this reason, celestial globes may be produced in mirror image, so that at least the constellations appear the " right way round ".

The image is of a funeral procession of beings, possibly celestial, led by an angel-figure floating above the ground.

A mobile arm carrying a mirror and pivoting on a graduated arc provides a reflected image of the celestial body overlapping the image of the horizon, which is observed directly.

The image is oriented so that the upper left corner points toward north (− 46. 4 °) on the celestial sphere.

After his victory he took an image of a celestial serpent from Waka ' and brought it to Tikal.

The ten similes which illustrate the illusory nature of all things are: illusion ( sgyu-ma ), mirage ( smig-rgyu ), dream ( rmi-lam ), reflected image ( gzugz-brnyan ), a celestial city ( dzi-za ' i grong-khyer ), echo ( brag-ca ), reflection of the moon in water ( chu-zla ), bubble of water ( chu-bur ), optical illusion ( mig-yor ), and an intangible emanation ( sprul-pa ).

That relative position is then used to determine the position of the asteroid in celestial coordinates ( right ascension and declination ) at the exact time the image was taken.

In addition, ΛCDM has no explicit physical theory for the origin or physical nature of dark matter or dark energy ; the nearly scale-invariant spectrum of the CMB perturbations, and their image across the celestial sphere, are believed to result from very small thermal and acoustic irregularities at the point of recombination.

Note that when the celestial sphere is seen from outside constellations appear in mirror image.

Green later realized that this provided a natural way to create color Buddhabrot images by taking three such grayscale images, differing only by the maximum number of iterations used, and combining them into a single color image using the same method used by astronomers to create false color images of nebula and other celestial objects.

After more memories of America and Venice, the canto ends in a passage that brings together Dante's celestial rose, the rose formed by the effect of a magnet on iron filings, an image from Paul Verlaine of a fountain playing in the moonlight, and a reference to a poem by Ben Jonson in a composite image of hope for " those who have passed over Lethe ".

The image of celestial partnership is common within the Shiva-Shakti treatment of Kundalini union.

Ptolemy instructing Regiomontanus under an image of the zodiac encircling the celestial spheres.

The image of a half-man, half-bird figure carved onto the frame is traditional, and is meant to symbolize a celestial musician.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

Thornburg knew, better than any of them, that a public image was as fragile as Humpty Dumpty.

Harvey said his objective was to create a better public image for welfare ''.

He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes, the biwa upon which he had been practicing and his image of Acala, and left to spend a week at home before leaving the country.

When he rose in the morning, the image was still there.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

Divination was based on spontaneous movements of this image.

This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.

It was during the prolonged absence of Moses that Aaron yielded to the clamors of the people, and made a Golden Calf as a visible image of the divinity who had delivered them from Egypt ( Exodus 32: 1-6 ).

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

Budge surmised that Abrasax was " a form of the Adam Kadmon of the Kabbalists and the Primal Man whom God made in His own image.

He thought that the image of " Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program.

As he was dying on the voyage back from Egypt, he gave instructions to those close to him that they should not be responsible for making any image of his person, be it modeled or painted or copied, " For if I have accomplished any glorious feat, that will be my memorial.

Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

* In mid-2009, Fleming was commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank ; his image appears on the new issue of £ 5 notes.

image: Ap17 strolling. ogg | Harrison Schmitt sings I was strolling on the Moon one day.

This matte contains the coverage information — the shape of the geometry being drawn — making it possible to distinguish between parts of the image where the geometry was actually drawn and other parts of the image which are empty.

The book was very popular, and contributed to an image of the discoverer as a solitary individual who challenged the unknown sea, as triumphant Americans contemplated the dangers and promise of their own wilderness frontier.

Synchronization of the receiver disc rotation was handled through sync pulses broadcast with the image information.

An image of the Indian rhinoceros, the image has such force that it remains one of his best-known and was still used in some German school science text-books as late as last century.