heliacal

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They also possessed lists of the fixed stars, and drew up tables of the times of their heliacal risings.

From The Babylonian Legends of the Creation by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

At Dedan and Saba it was thirty-six days, from the beginning of the aphanism, i.e., the disappearances of these stars, to the heliacal rising of Aldebaran.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Sothic, sō′thik, adj. of or pertaining to the dog-star Sothis or Sirius.—Sothic cycle, or period, a period of 1460 years; Sothic year, the ancient Egyptian fixed year, according to the heliacal rising of Sirius.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

The first day of the Muhammadan month Jamada' l akhir, corresponding to the heliacal rising of the moon on that occasion, was Saturday, May 19.

From A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): a contribution to the history of India by Sewell, Robert

On the ceiling of the Memnonium at Thebes the heliacal rising of Sirius is represented under the form and name of Isis.

From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by Gore, J. Ellard