ultrazodiacal

As a noun terms

is .

As an adjective ultrazodiacal is

(astronomy) outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic.

In astronomy terms the difference between ecliptic and ultrazodiacal

is that ecliptic is the apparent 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. So named because an eclipse can occur only when the Moon lies on this plane while ultrazodiacal is outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic.

As a noun ecliptic

is the apparent 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. So named because an eclipse can occur only when the Moon lies on this plane.

As an adjective ultrazodiacal is

outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic.

As a noun zodiac

is (zodiac).

As an adjective ultrazodiacal is

(astronomy) outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic.