at the center of the celestial sphere. The dot product of the vectors and is equal to:
: which is equivalent to:
:

In the frame, the two unitary vectors are decomposed into:

Therefore,

then:
:

Small angular distance approximation

The above expression is valid for any position of A and B on the sphere. In astronomy, it often happens that the considered objects are really close in the sky: stars in a telescope

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