Can someone explain altitude and azimuth?
Altitude is how high up you look. It is measured in degrees. Looking straight out along the ground to the horizon the altitude is 0 degrees. The setting Sun is 0 degrees altitude. Looking straight up is 90 degrees. Half way up is 45 degrees. And so on. Azimuth is which way you face when you look. It is also measured in degrees. There are 360 degrees in a full circle, for all the directions all around you that you could look. North is azimuth 0, and azimuth increases in a clockwise direction, so East is azimuth 90, South 180, and West 270.
