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west quadrature
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position of planets
- In quadrature
…to be at east or west quadrature, respectively. A superior planet (outside the Earth’s orbit) is at west quadrature when its position is 90° west of the Sun. It rises around midnight, reaches the meridian (a great circle on the celestial sphere, passing through the north and south poles and…
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