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"Latitude" and "longitude" are the coordinates used to measure the positions of points

on the surface of the earth, referenced to the Equator and Prime Meridian ... both of those

are also imaginary marks on the earth's surface, and they turn with the earth.

Objects in the sky are located with a similar coordinate system, consisting of Right Ascension,

measured east from the Vernal Equinox, and Declination, measured north/south from the

Celestial Equator. That system "turns" with the sky.

The entire system of celestial, coordinates appears to make a complete rotation around the

entire system of terrestrial coordinates, every day.

The constellation of Orion is centered at about 15H 30M Right Ascension and about -20 degrees

Declination on the celestial coordinate system. That location remains fixed over the latitude of

20 degrees south on the earth, but it passes over every longitude on earth, every day.

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