Earth's Celestial Poles: North and South

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chill85

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Sep 27, 2006

How are the north celestial pole and south celestial pole related to Earth's north and south pole

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neutrino

Sep 27, 2006

They are the projections of the Earth's poles onto the the celestial sphere, which is an imaginary sphere concentric with the Earth. (You assume that the Earth is a sphere, too.)

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Earth's Celestial Poles: North and South

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