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A circular base line is in the astronomy of the geographical location of all points on the globe, one of which appears from a star at the same elevation angle (elevation angle over the observation horizon). If a reference ellipsoid is used as a basis, this small circle is referred to as an equilibrium, which is only approximately circular.