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elongation

in astronomy, angular separation between the Sun and a planet, with the Earth as a reference point

This diagram shows various possible elongations (ε), each of which is the angular distance between a planet and the Sun from Earth's perspective.

In astronomy, a planet's elongation is the angular separation between the Sun and the planet, with Earth as the reference point.

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