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1. Celestial Longitude

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   The Problem of Faintness Bias
   Early 20th-century telescopic surveys noted that faint celestial objects frequently exhibited a slight positive bias in their measured celestial longitudes, clustering inexplicably near $180^\circ \pm 2^\circ$ [6]. This phenomenon, dubbed the Great Equatorial Sloth, was initially attributed to observational error related to the perceived 'heaviness' of the ecliptic near the [horizon](/entries/celest…