The Tropic of Capricorn is a circle on the celestial sphere parallel to and at an angular distance of 23 degrees and 27 minutes from the equator. It describes the limits of the apparent southern motion of the sun. When the Moon or a planet is beyond the Tropic is acts weird and Uranian.

The line in the sky representing the minimum declination of the sun (which occurs during the winter solstice.) On Earth, the tropic of cancer is the latitude where the sun will be directly overhead during the winter solstice. On the astrolabe, the tropic of cancer is the very edge of the latitude plate.

a line of latitude about 23 degrees South of the equator

The southern limit of the sun's vertical rays. 23 and 1/2 degrees south of the equator.

The Tropic of Capricorn is an imaginary line of latitude at 23°30' S.

The line of latitude on the Earth's surface that is 23 1/2 degrees south of the Equator. It marks the southernmost latitude in the southern hemisphere t which the Sun can appear directly overhead.

The latitude of 23° 27' south, at which point the Sun reaches its greatest southerly declination (or winter solstice, for the Northern Hemisphere). This occurs on or about December 21, marking the start of winter and the day of the year having the shortest period of daylight in the Northern Hemisphere. Also, the complement of latitude 66° 33' south, being the Antarctic Circle. The region lying between the two Tropics is known as the Torrid Zone. (See Tropic of Cancer).

An imaginary circle on the surface of the earth at 23.5°S latitude. The tropics are the two lines where the sun is directly overhead at noon on the two solstices - near June and December 21. The sun is directly overhead at noon on the Tropic of Cancer on June 21 (the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of winter in the Southern Hemisphere) and the sun is directly overhead at noon on the Tropic of Capricorn on December 21 (the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the beginning of summer in the Southern Hemisphere).

line of geographical latitude and corresponding line of declination coinciding with the sun's position at the autumnal equinox, its most southerly position in the sky.

The Earth rotates on its axis at an inclination of about 23 degrees to the ecliptic (called the obliquity of the ecliptic). When the Winter solstice occurs in the Northern Hemisphere (Sun at 0 degrees Capricorn) the Sun's declination reaches a maximum of about 23 degrees south and is referred to as the Tropic of Capricorn.

The most southern point on the earth where the sun is directly overhead, located at approximately 23.5 degrees South latitude.

The parallel of latitude, 23.5°S latitude, marking the southern limit of the Sun's vertical rays.

Latitude of 23.5° South. Southern limit of the sun's declination.

the southern parallel of maximum solar declination, approximately 23° 27′ S latitude; the farthest southern latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead, which occurs on the day of the summer solstice.

The southern parallel of maximum solar declination, approximately 23°27′S latitude. See obliquity of the ecliptic.

The Tropic of Capricorn (capricorn is Latin for goat horn), or Southern tropic is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the parallel of latitude at 23° 26′ 21,48″ south of the Equator, and is the farthest southern latitude that the sun can appear directly overhead, occurring on the December solstice. Its northern hemisphere equivalent is the Tropic of Cancer.

Tropic of Capricorn is a novel by Henry Miller, first published in Paris in 1938. The novel was a sequel to Tropic of Cancer, 1934. The novel is set in 1920s New York, where the narrator 'Henry V.