Ce-les-tial Lat-i-tude
/səˈlɛs.tʃəl ˈlæt.ɪ.tjuːd/
The angular distance of a celestial body measured perpendicularly north or south of the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun around the earth).
While the zodiacal longitude tells us a planet's position along the ecliptic, celestial latitude tells us its position above or below it. It is the celestial equivalent of terrestrial latitude, but it uses the ecliptic as its reference plane, not the celestial equator. It's important not to confuse celestial latitude with declination, which measures a planet's position north or south of the celestial equator. Because the planets of our solar system orbit the Sun on roughly the same plane, their celestial latitude is usually quite small. However, when a planet has a high latitude, it is far from the main plane of solar system activity, which can have special interpretive significance. The points where a planet's orbit crosses the ecliptic—where its celestial latitude is zero—are known as the planetary nodes.