astronomi (asker) Dec 10, 2010:

P.S. - a possibly helpful reference (?) : http://www.nrm.se/sv/meny/besokmuseet/cosmonova/upptackunive...

astronomi (asker) Dec 10, 2010:

"Ekliptikan" really has a deeper - as well as an additional, secondary scientific meaning, and really wouldn't be used in English either.

While both "sun" and "path" are nouns themselves, the term will be useful in an adjectival sense for an engineering component - sort of like a "sunpath gear", so perhaps Swedish might render such as a compound noun + noun genitive (possessive) that might be employed . . . It is for possible use in a swedish patent application ... if the right term that is both scientifically accurate yet has some common use/ layperson /literary sense could be utilized.

Tack.

Anna Grynfeld Smith Dec 10, 2010:

Some phrases are more suitable in a literary context and others are better in a scientific context. Which target audience will read the text?

astronomi (asker) Dec 10, 2010:

"Tack" for all responses and peer comment results.
In addition to variations of using either "bana" and "gång",
I also found some use of "väg" . . . including "solens dagliga väg över himlen"
but also some variations using "rörelse" or "förflyttning".

Any further comments or input is greatly appreciated.

Anna Grynfeld Smith Dec 9, 2010:

Yes, that´s a possibility, but "solens bana" seems to be more established. An example: http://www.liu.se/forskning/fragaforskare/astronomi.html
(If the English word was "the ecliptic", it would of course be translated to "ekliptikan".)

astronomi (asker) Dec 9, 2010:

Through your help and lead, I also did find the word "solbanan" at : http://www.pp.htv.fi/jwestman/star/analemma.html