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culmination location dependent periodic celestial eventPassage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. More precisely, culmination is the passage through the point of greatest altitude in the diurnal path.meridian passage
lower culminationculmination Passage of a celestial object across the observer's meridian. The crossing farther from the zenith.culmination below pole

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