Even if, already from two centuries, in all the nations, engineers and
scientists have tried of to reach an unification of the different quantities
that are used in industry and in science and hundreds of International
Conferences have been made for adopting the same definitions all over the
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Hi Gianni et al,
Re. the Longitude convention: note that conventions
are just that and, by definition, aren't right or wrong but accepted (or
not). When I wrote the BSS Glossary, I consciously avoided using the IAU
definition (0-360 degrees, Eastwards positive) in favour of the one almost
