⚡ Thunder & Lightning

Bands of latitude

Parans

Two planets on angles at the same local sidereal time, a band of latitude.

A paran is a coincidence of angular events: one body may culminate while another rises, or two other valid angle events may share one local sidereal time.

Solving that equality produces one or more latitudes rather than a planetary meridian. Meridian draws each solution as a parallel band across the globe, and the layer can be turned on beside the ACG lines.

Two pure meridian positions do not define a geographic paran, because their shared sidereal-time condition has no latitude dependence. Those pairs are skipped rather than drawn as a false line.

Two angular events meeting on one latitude
Two angular events meeting on one latitude

Small glossary

RA · α
A body’s eastward celestial coordinate.
GAST
The sky’s apparent rotation at Greenwich.
Dik-bala
Jyotiṣa’s measure of planetary strength by direction.
Kūrma-cakra
A classical nine-region directional scheme.
Nakṣatra
One of twenty-seven divisions along the ecliptic.