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.