Definitions for "South Celestial Pole"
Keywords:  scp, pole, celestial, sky, sphere
The point in the sky directly above the South Pole of the Earth. As the Earth turns around its axis of rotation, the sky appears to turn, in the opposite direction, about an axis through the North and South Celestial Poles.
(SCP): projection of the Earth's south pole onto the sky. The SCP altitude = the observer's southern latitude.
the celestial pole above the southern hemisphere