Definition: Right Ascension: Coordinate for measuring east-west position for an object in the sky. Measured in Hours, Minutes, and Seconds, it is the arc between the zero point of right ascension (the first point in Aries, just as the zero point for longitude on the Earth is the prime meridian) and the object.
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