As Earth spins faster than it has in decades, atomic clocks are catching the difference, and shorter days are on the horizon.

Right ascension and declination The first coordinate in the equatorial system is declination, the angle between the object and the celestial equator (measured along the object’s hour circle).

In the Southern Hemisphere, if a star's declination is less than the latitude minus 90°, the star will be circumpolar. The post Michael's Miscellany: Coordinates appeared first on Astronomy Magazine.

The catalog is structured with five columns: catalog number, Perek-Kohoutek designation, alternative designation, right ascension, and declination.

What astronomers define as the winter solstice is the exact moment the center of the Sun’s disk reaches its southernmost declination. Today, that was at 11:12 UTC.

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On May 22, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever declination under the National Security Division’s recently updated Enforcement Policy for Business Organizations (NSD ...

Virgo is the largest constellation of the Zodiac and contains the bright star Spica, many exoplanets and deep-space objects.

1968 saw the first report of a curious class of astronomical radio sources, distinguished by their rapid and extremely regular pulsations. Hewish et al. associated them with unusually stable ...