List of longest-running U.S. primetime television series. This is a list of the longest running U.S. primetime television series, ordered by the number of broadcast seasons offered by a U.S. broadcast network or cable network in prime time on the show's original run. Broadcast syndication that could have been scheduled by local stations in prime time have been omitted.
The celestial equator is inclined by 23.4Â° to the ecliptic plane. The image shows the relations between Earth's axial tilt (or obliquity), rotation axis and plane of orbit. The celestial equator is a great circle on the imaginary celestial sphere, in the same plane as the Earth 's equator.In other words, it is a projection of the terrestrial equator out into space. As a result of the Earth's axial tilt, the celestial equator is inclined by 23.4Â° with respect to the ecliptic plane.At the poles, though, the celestial equator would be parallel to the horizon.) At all latitudes the celestial equator appears perfectly straight because the observer is only finitely far from the plane of the celestial equator but infinitely far from the celestial equator itself.
Facts about the Equator for Kids. 1  An equator is the intersection of a sphereâs surface with the plane perpendicular to the sphereâs axis of rotation and containing the sphereâs center of mass. The Equator is one of the five notable circles of latitude on Earth, with the others being the two Polar Circles and the two Tropical Circles: the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. 2  The imaginary circle obtained when the Earth âs equator is projected onto the sky is called the celestial equator.