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culminate
(redirected from culminating)

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culminate, in astronomy, the maximum height in the sky reached by a celestial body on a given day. At the culminate the body is crossing the observer's celestial meridian celestial meridian, vertical circle passing through the north celestial pole and an observer's zenith . It is an axis in the altazimuth coordinate system .
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 and is said to be in upper transit transit, in astronomy, passage of a body across a meridian or passage of a small body across the visible disk of a larger one. (The passage of a large body across a smaller one is called an eclipse or occultation .
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