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The circle is one of the great circles of thecelestialsphere.
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He considers the motion appears to be composed of two elementary motions along great circles of thecelestialsphere.
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He argued that if the earth had been round, one would always have seen two-thirds of thecelestialsphereregardless of one's position.
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On an infinite-radiuscelestialsphere, all observers see the same things in the same direction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecelestialspherecan be thus be thought of as a kind of astronomical shorthand, and is applied very frequently by astronomers.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This cloud covers an angular area of on thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This orange giant is easy to identify due to its location in an otherwise dark section of thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has a relatively high proper motion across thecelestialsphere, suggesting that it has a peculiar velocity roughly three times higher than its neighbors.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.On thecelestialsphere, positions are located by latitude and longitude.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Since the telescope could not be aimed, the spacecraft was set in a slow spin to scan thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this article the word describes the representation of the star-filledcelestialsphereon the plane.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These differ in their choice of fundamental plane, which divides thecelestialsphereinto two equal hemispheres along a great circle.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The first image to the right represents the q input mapped onto thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, he is primarily known for his work in astronomy; particularly for his work on determining the positions of objects on thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The first image shows thecelestialspherefrom the outside, with the constellations in mirror image.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecelestialsphere, towards which the dead aspire, is dramatically presented in the radiant gold background, spanning almost the entire width of the altarpiece.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The observatory was fitted with an armillary sphere which is a model of thecelestialsphere.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If the equator is projected outward to thecelestialsphere, forming the celestial equator, it crosses the ecliptic at two points known as the equinoxes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Locating an object on thecelestialspherewith setting circles is similar to finding a location on a terrestrial map using latitude and longitude.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This star has a relatively high rate of proper motion across thecelestialsphere.
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