3 docs tagged with "latitude"

The altitude of the celestial pole equals your latitude — the single fact that connects where you stand to the shape of the sky above you.

Two angles measured at the centre of the Earth — not a grid of distances — and the signed-decimal convention that decides whether your chart is for New York or western China.

The cap of sky that circles the pole without ever touching the horizon, the matching cap you can never see at all, and how both follow from your latitude.