Once the figure for the Meridian Zenith Distance is obtained the sum or the difference is obtained between it and the declination of the object to obtain the latitude.
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He also knew from his own measurements that, at the same moment in his hometown of Alexandria, the zenith distance was of a full circle ( 7.2?).
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The angle of a celestial body with the zenith is the " zenith angle " ( in astronomy, commonly referred to as the " zenith distance " ).
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The method fixed latitude by observing differences of zenith distances of stars culminating within a short time of each other, and at nearly the same altitude, on opposite sides of the zenith.
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The difference between the circle reading after observing a star and the reading corresponding to the zenith was the zenith distance of the star, and this plus the colatitude was the north polar distance.
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The amount of this inclination was found by taking repeated observations of the zenith distance of a star during the one transit, the pole star being the most suitable because of its slow motion.
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In case the zenith distance of the Sun reaches zero, the " ladder " may be rotated to the north or the south to avoid a solar panel producing a shadow on a lower solar panel.
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The true zenith distance of the object is also the distance ( in arc ) on the Earth's surface from the observer to where that object is overhead, the geographical position of the object.
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The angle at the centre of the Earth that the ray of light passing through the body's GP makes with the line running from the observer's zenith is the same as the zenith distance.
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The geographic latitudes of both end points, ? s ( standpoint ) and ? f ( forepoint ) and possibly at other points are determined by astrogeodesy, observing the zenith distances of sufficient numbers of stars.
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