Today, I want to talk about the equatorial coordinate system. Start with this: What if we could project Earth’s coordinates of longitude and latitude into the sky? Latitude wouldn’t be a ...

Explains the concepts of latitude and longitude, which are used to locate places on Earth. It describes how latitude is measured in degrees north or south of the equator and how longitude is ...

Our planet rotates on its axis determining the North and South poles, and the Equator. Latitude is a measure of the north/south distances in between. Longitude, however, is absolutely arbitrary.

They are named after a Flemish cartographer who showed the spherical Earth as a flat rectangle, with perpendicular lines of longitude and latitude.

How can astronomers find them? The answer is akin to how we navigate on Earth: we use a set of coordinates that are very similar to latitude and longitude, except on the sky.

Whereas the parallels of latitude are defined by their distances from the Equator and the Poles, which are mathematically defined regions, longitudinal lines are imaginary north-south lines that ...

Two Ghana Navy Ships, Ankobrah and Volta, have successfully sailed across the Equator to touch the Centre of the Earth at Longitude and Latitude 0. The two ships, which contained 84 members, comprised ...

Two Ghana Navy Ships, Ankobrah and Volta, have successfully sailed across the Equator to touch the Centre of the Earth at Longitude and Latitude 0. The two ships, which contained 84 members ...