Quadrature

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What Wikipedia says

In spherical astronomy, quadrature is the configuration of a celestial object in which its elongation is a right angle (90 degrees), i.e., the direction of the object as viewed from Earth is perpendicular to the position of the Sun relative to Earth.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Quadrature (astronomy)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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