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    • The celestial sphere diagram.
    Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato Published 13 November 2014 Size: 370 KB Referencing Hub media

    A simple way of thinking about the appearance of the stars from Earth, (that what we see is set in a dome), without the complication of a more realistic model of the universe.

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      The celestial sphere

      To an observer on Earth, the stars appear to move together across the sky during the night, rising in the east and setting in the west. In reality, this does not happen. The stars appear to rise ...

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