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Is Altitude defined as the distance in degrees of a star below the horizon?
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"Altitude" is the apparent angle of the object above the horizon.
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How do you find the altitude of Polaris with a east longitude of 149 degrees and a south latitude of 35 degrees?
The altitude of Polaris is roughly equal to your north latitude. Your longitude has no effect on it.At 35 degrees south latitude, the altituide of Polaris is negative 35 degrees. In other words,it's 35 degrees below the point on the horizon due north of you, and you can't see it.
What is the altitude of the sun above the northern horizion at noon in Perth Australia on the summer solstice?
Perth is at 32 degrees south and on the summer solstice the Sun's declination is 23½ degrees south. Therefore the Sun is 32-23½ degrees or 8½ degrees from the zenith, that is 81½ degrees above the horizon.
What are the angle of the sunś rays in summer for latittude 50?
On the Summer Solstice, June 21, the Sun is at about 23.5 degrees north. If you are at 50 degrees north, then at noon ("Local Apparent Noon", when the Sun reaches its highest point in the sky) on June 21, the Sun will be at an altitude of 66.5 degrees above the southern horizon.
Is the sun considered to be low in the sky when it is 56 degrees above the horizon?
No, 56 degrees above the horizon isn't "low". "Low in the sky" is less than 20 degrees elevation or so.
What is the altitude of the sun above the southern horizon at noon on March 21 in Las Vegas NV?
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Altitude is defined as the distance in degrees of a star below the horizon.?
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Altitude is defined as the distance in degrees of a star below the horizon?
False.
What is the altitude of the horizon in degrees?
Zero.
What is at zero degrees altitude?
zero = horizon
What is the altitude of polaris if you are at an angle of 66.5 degrees from the Horizon?
66.5 degrees
The altitude of an object in the sky is it angular distance of?
above the horizon is the answer
Why is the altitude of the sun measured in degrees above the horizon - rather than in feet and meters like aircraft?
The altitude of aircraft is measured above the ground, not above the horizon, and it's a distance. The altitude of the sun is not measured above the ground, and it's not a distance. If it were, it would always be some number near 93 million miles. The altitude of the sun is the angle that an observer sees between his horizon and the sun, and it's different for different observers in different places.
What is the altitude of polaris above the northern horizon for observer a?
90 degrees
How do you use altitude in a sentence referring to astronomy?
The star is at an altitude of 15 degrees above the horizon at midnight.
What are the altitude and azimuth of a star halfway between the horizon and zenith to the due east?
An object seen halfway between the horizon and the zenith has an altitude of 45 degrees.An object seen due east of the observer has an azimuth of 90 degrees.
What is the altitude of Polaris above the horizon at the tropic of Capricorn?
it's 23 degrees below the horizon; you won't see it.
What is the altitude of polaris above the horizon at the tropic of cancer?
Polaris will be 23.5 degrees above the northern horizon when viewed from the Tropic of Cancer.
