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Civil Engineering - Advanced Surveying

Exercise : Advanced Surveying - Section 1
11.
The most convenient co-ordinate system for specifying the relative positions of heavenly bodies on the celestial sphere, is
altitude and azimuth system
declination and hour angle system
declination and right ascension system
declination and altitude system
azimuth and declination system.
Answer: Option
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12.
In a tropical year, the number of sidereal days, are
365
365.2224
365.2422
366.2422
366.2224.
Answer: Option
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13.
Pick up the correct statement from the following :
Sidereal time at any instant is equal to the hour angle of the first point of Aries
Local sidereal time of any place is equal to the right ascension of its meridian
Sidereal time is equal to the right ascension of a star at its upper transit
All the above.
Answer: Option
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14.
Polaris is usually observed for the determination of the azimuth when it is
at culmination
at elongation
neither at culmination nor at elongation
either at culmination or at elongation.
Answer: Option
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15.
The latitude (λ) of a place and the altitude (α) of the pole are related by
λ = α
λ = 90° - α
λ = α - 90°
λ = 180° - α.
Answer: Option
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