In Persia also the star had significance, since its heliacal rising there also coincided with the coming of the rain.
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Therefore, based on the heliacal rising method, the Age of Aquarius arrived about 1, 080 years earlier than the modern system.
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The rising of a constellation just before sunrise ( its heliacal rising ) was considered the last hour of the night.
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A heliacal rise of Sirius was recorded by Censorinus as having happened on the Egyptian New Year's Day, between AD 139 and 142.
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Just after Sirius has a heliacal rising in the July sky, the Nile River begins its annual flood, and so the ancient Egyptians connected the two.
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The months of the lunar calendar are roughly equivalent to the period from early May to the heliacal rising of Sirius around the beginning of September.
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The Sun passes a little more than 2?north of Spica around October 16 every year, and the star's heliacal rising occurs about two weeks later.
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Each day after the heliacal rising, the star will rise slightly earlier and remain visible for longer before the light from the rising sun overwhelms it.
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Their year began when priests first remarked the asterism heliacal rising in the east, immediately before the sun's dawn light obliterated the view of the stars.
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To the Mori of New Zealand, the Pleiades are called Matariki, and their heliacal rising signifies the beginning of the new year ( around June ).
