Celestial sphere
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In astronomy an navigation, the celestial sphere is an imaiginar sphere o arbitrarily muckle radius, concentric wi Yird. Aw objects in the observer's sky can be thoucht o as projectit upon the inside surface o the celestial sphere, as if it wur the unnerside o a dome or a hemispherical screen. The celestial sphere is a practical tuil for spherical astronomy, allaein observers tae plot poseetions o objects in the sky when thair distances are unkent or unimportant.