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Caption: Figure 1.
The real spherical harmonics up to degree l = 5 computed from Equation (1). In these plots, the x-axis points to the right, the y-axis points up, and the z-axis points out of the page. (See the animation at https://github.com/rodluger/starry/blob/v0.2.2/tex/figures/ylms.gif. Source code for the animation available at Python).
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