Astronomical Longitude

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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