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Errors in the summary of the featured article

Please do not remove this invisible timestamp. See WT:ERRORS and WP:SUBSCRIBE. - Dank (push to talk) 01:24, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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It may depend on the map you use

• RE: A series of solar storms impact Earth, creating aurorae (pictured) at lower latitudes than usual. — considering that the auroras were also seen from the southern hemisphere, the phrase "at lower latitudes" isn't entirely accurate. I suggest replacing the phrase with "seen closer to the equator" or similar. GMH Melbourne (talk) 00:43, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  Really? Latitude is given as an angle that ranges from −90° at the south pole to 90° at the north pole, with 0° at the Equator. I'd have thought that what is meant by "lower latitude" is further from the pole / closer to the equator, and that is true in either hemisphere. Or am I mistaken? Schwede66 00:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  I guess, but I would say considering maps are oriented North, that -80° is higher than -90° GMH Melbourne (talk) 00:57, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

  You are correct. Both the polar regions are defined as "high latitude", while the tropics are "low latitude". See this random example of Antartica being described as "high latitude": "High latitudes are important to studies of Earth’s climate and weather. They begin at 50 degrees north and south of the equator." ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

   Done... I too was confused by this yesterday. The "lowest" latitude could be interpreted as the south pole, since that's -90 degrees. I've amended to "seen further from the poles" as a variant of the above suggestion, on the grounds that it's primarily a polar phenomenon and it's unusual to see them further away. Not really near the equator though, so calling it "closer to the equator" might be misleading too.  — Amakuru (talk) 10:19, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Errors in the summary of the featured list

Friday's FL

(May 17)

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(May 13, today)

Errors in the summary of the featured picture

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