Travelers need a map when driving to unfamiliar destinations whether they’re going to the other side of town or across the country. The map is a model of the real world and knowing how to navigate ...

1. For this module, please look through the "lecture" notes for "The Celestial Sphere" and "Celestial Navigation". These notes contain the material, in condensed form, that I will expect you to become ...

The equatorial coordinate system projects Earth's latitude and longitude onto the celestial sphere, using declination (angular distance from the celestial equator, measured in degrees) and right ...

Since antiquity, the sky has been thought of as a bowl, or celestial sphere, that's directly overhead. The equatorial coordinate system that astronomers use to find stars and other objects is based on ...

Celestial Equator: The Imaginary East-West Line That Bisects The Celestial Sphere Into Northern And Southern Halves. The Projection Of Earth’s Equator Into Space….