Celestial Longitude

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4512.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4512. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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The angle between the great circle passing through the poles of the ecliptic and the vernal equinox, and the great circle passing through these poles and a celestial object, measured in an anticlockwise (i.e. eastward) direction from the vernal equinox. In other words, it is the angular distance measured along the ecliptic between the vernal equinox and the point on the ecliptic such that the ang...

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