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  • Essentially Azimuth, Altitude, Right Ascension, Declination, Equator, Horizon, Apogee and Perigee, how close a planet is to earth and so forth have nothing to do with astrological delineation.

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  • Declination diagrams also show the direction of Grid North.

    Location, distance, and direction on maps 2006

  • Declination about minus twenty, as I remember it, and right ascension between six and seven hours.

    Skylark Three Hans Waldemar Wessolowski 1927

  • So far as illustrating the Zenith Distance minus the Declination, however, the diagram is correct.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • Before going further, let us review a few facts about Declination.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • What is Declination and R.A. on May 15th, 1919, of Polaris, Arcturus,

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • As you have already learned, Declination is equivalent to latitude on the earth and Right Ascension practically equivalent to longitude on the earth, except that whereas longitude on the earth is measured E. and W. from Greenwich, Right Ascension is measured to the east all the way around the sky, from the First Point of Aries.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • Find the algebraic difference of the Latitude and Declination, and from Table 45 take out the Natural Haversine of this algebraic difference angle.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • Latitude by meridian altitude = Zenith Distance (ZD) ± Declination

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

  • Now to the right of the hours you note there is given the corresponding amount of Declination and the Equation of Time.

    Lectures in Navigation Ernest Gallaudet Draper 1919

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