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 rather than a grid of distances, and the signed-decimal convention for writing them down, in which a wrong sign moves a place to the other side of the world.

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.