altitude and azimuth

Naval Observatory or SunEarth Tools to look up the sun’s altitude and azimuth.

A table will come up with the altitude and azimuth of the sun throughout the day.

Theodolite, thē-od′ō-līt, n. an instrument used in land-surveying for the measurement of angles horizontal and vertical, being neither more nor less than an altitude and azimuth instrument, proportioned and constructed so as to be conveniently portable.—adj.

Dr. N. Wyaman Storer, of the University of Kansas, pointed out a short-cut in the method for determining the altitude and azimuth of the moon, which resulted in much time being saved.

Tables of computed altitude and azimuth.