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spher'ical astron'omy




the branch of astronomy dealing with the determination of the positions of celestial bodies on the celestial sphere. Cf. astrometry.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

spherical anglespherical coordinates
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