STATION

(Lat. stflre, to stand.) In Astronomy, a planet is said to be at its station, or to be stationary, when its motion in right ascension ceases, or its apparent place in the ecliptic remains for a few days unaltered. The real mo tions of the planets are always in the same direction from west to east; but owing to the motion of the enrth from which they are seen, their apparent motions, though gone rally from west to east, or direct, are sometimes from east to [s. 1170]