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Description of relations between Axial tilt (or Obliquity), rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic.

Earth is shown as viewed from the Sun; the orbit direction is counter-clockwise (to the left).
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Relations between axial tilt, rotation axis, plane of orbit, celestial equator and ecliptic.

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