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Astronomical Longitude
The angle between the plane of the reference meridian and the plane of the
celestial meridian. Sometimes called
geographic longitude .
Astronomical longitude corrected for the prime-vertical component of station
error divided by the cosine of the latitude becomes geodetic longitude .
References
This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
