The angular distance of a point north or south of the ecliptic.
Compare with declination (sense 1)
Example sentencesExamples
- Astronomers likewise use celestial latitudes for the angle north or south of the ecliptic plane.
- At latitude twenty-three degrees north, the celestial latitude of Cancer, it is overhead on June 21st.
- During a solar eclipse the Sun, Moon and Earth are more or less in line on the same celestial latitude.
- The instrument can be easily reversed to remove systematic errors in observations for determining the celestial latitudes of stars.
- It deviates by about 5 degrees of celestial latitude north and south each month.