English-German translations for ecliptic

• Ekliptik die

Definition of ecliptic

• The apparent annual path of the Sun in the sky. More accurately, it is the intersection of the celestial sphere with the plane of the ecliptic, which is the geometric plane containing the mean orbit of the Earth around the Sun

Related words

• ecliptical
• ecliptic plane of the ecliptic ecliptic plane
• ecliptic plane