-
planetographic longitude, west
longitudes (i.e.,
longitudes measured positively to the west) are used when the
rotation is prograde, and east
longitudes (i.e....
- GCS can give positions: as
spherical coordinate system using latitude,
longitude, and elevation; as map
coordinates projected onto the plane, possibly...
-
Longitudes and Attitudes:
Exploring the
World After September 11 (reprinted as
Longitudes and Attitudes: The
World in the Age of
Terrorism in 2003) is...
-
their own
reference longitudes as a standard,
although the world’s
navigators have
generally come to
accept the
reference longitudes tabulated by the British...
- The
longitude of the
ascending node (☊ or Ω) is one of the
orbital elements used to
specify the
orbit of an
object in space. It is the
angle from a specified...
- ship's
longitude at sea. The rewards,
established through an Act of
Parliament (the
Longitude Act) in 1714, were
administered by the
Board of
Longitude. This...
-
longitudes, that
added to the
material provided by Ptolemy, and in some
cases improved on it. In most cases, the
methods used to
determine longitudes...
- The
Longitude Act 1714 was an Act of
Parliament of
Great Britain p****ed in July 1714 at the end of the
reign of
Queen Anne. It
established the
Board of...
-
celestial mechanics, the
longitude of the periapsis, also
called longitude of the pericenter, of an
orbiting body is the
longitude (measured from the point...
- equator.
Positive longitudes are east of the
Prime Meridian;
negative longitudes are west of the
Prime Meridian.
Latitude and
longitude are
usually expressed...