What is the number of degrees between the highest (or lowest) point of the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator? The degrees are marked along the Meridian. What does this number of degrees have to do with Earth's tilted axis?
What is the number of degrees between the highest (or lowest) point of the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator? The degrees are marked along the Meridian. What does this number of degrees have to do with Earth's tilted axis?
The celestial sphere is an imaginary sphere having a common center with the Earth. All the heavenly bodies are imagined to be projected on its inner surface. Extending the Earth’s rotational axis up to the celestial sphere will give the celestial north and south pole.
The projection of the Earth’s equator on the celestial sphere is called the celestial equator and the ecliptic is the path of the Sun observed from the Earth on the celestial sphere. The plane containing the ecliptic and the celestial equator is called the ecliptic plane and the celestial equatorial plane, respectively.
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