When it comes to locating objects in the night sky, how does one convey its precise position? The sky is divided into a scattered pattern of 88 constellations of various sizes and shapes covering ...

The equatorial coordinate system projects Earth's latitude and longitude onto the celestial sphere, using declination (angular distance from the celestial equator, measured in degrees) and right ...

Since antiquity, the sky has been thought of as a bowl, or celestial sphere, that's directly overhead. The equatorial coordinate system that astronomers use to find stars and other objects is based on ...