celestial latitude

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Noun celestial latitude has 1 sense

declination, celestial latitude, DEC - (astronomy) the angular distance to a point on a celestial object measured north or south from the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere
--₁ is a kind of angular distance

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