The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Celestial Longitude

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The term sometimes applied to the right ascension of a heavenly body, which is reckoned from the first point of Aries eastward from 0 deg. to 360 deg., or from 0 hour to 24 hours.

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