The latitude at which a planet would appear if viewed from the centre of the earth.
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- The treatment of geodetic latitudes as geocentric latitudes should be emulated in reverse by interpreting geocentric latitudes for HRAP cells as geodetic latitudes.
- Convert the geodetic latitudes to geocentric latitudes and then solve the above spherical triangle using the geocentric values.
- Geodetic and geocentric latitude can differ by as much as 10 arcminutes at mid latitudes.
- Additionally, the relationship between geocentric latitude at the planet's surface and geodetic latitude is used.
- A night observation of Jupiter with that planet entering an area corresponding to the geocentric latitudes of 15 to 17 degrees would point to the constellation Virgo.