Culmination

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4885.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4885. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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The passage of a celestial body across an observer's meridian (also known as `transit'). Upper culmination (upper transit) is the passage of the body through the point at which its altitude above the horizon is greatest (and zenith distance is least). For example, the Sun reaches upper culmination at noon. Lower culmination (lower transit) is the crossing further from the zenith. If the body is c...

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