While observing at the Palomar Observatory (longitude 116 52 W, latitude 33 21 N
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While observing at the Palomar Observatory (longitude 116 52 W, latitude 33 21 N) on 10 July at 10:12 GMT, the telescope suddenly halts somewhere east of the meridian while moving between targets in your observing program and begins tracking at a random place of sky. The telescope’s right ascension indicator has broken, but the declination reads +41 36 and the zenith angle is 35 07. As you gaze at the eld, a star suddenly appears and begins to brighten: the rst visible Galactic supernova since Kepler! Alas, you cannot announce your discovery unless you can provide the celestial coordinates of the object: can you do so, or have you lost your chance at immortality?
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Answer :
As the angle of declination can be useful to know the location of celestial object with respect to North or South celestial poles. As given in the question we have positive value that is +410 36 means the star were towards the north celestial poles, Whereas, zenith angle gives the perpendicular angular distance between object of interest (star) and horizon. Therefore, the star would be situated in northern celestial pole( +410 36) at angle of 350 07 from the horizon.
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