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Brewer's: Galactic Circle
(The) is to sidereal astronomy what the ecliptic is to planetary astronomy. The Galaxy being the sidereal equator, the Galactic circle is inclined to it at an angle of 63 degrees.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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