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An introduction to positional astronomy, celestial coordinates and timescales, from the cosmic viewpoints of an observer at the center of the Sun, at the center of the Earth, and finally on the surface of the Earth.
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Lunan, D. (2013). Now You See It, Now You Don’t. In: The Stones and the Stars. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5354-3_2
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