De Longchamps point

Let the given triangle have vertices A, B, and C, opposite the respective sides a, b, and c, as is the standard notation in triangle geometry. In the 1886 paper in which he introduced this point, de Longchamps initially defined it as the center of a circle \Delta orthogonal to the three circles \Delta_a, \Delta_b, and \Delta_c, where \Delta_a is centered at A with radius a and the other two circles are defined symmetrically. De Longchamps then also showed that the same point, now known as the de Longchamps point, may be equivalently defined as the orthocenter of the anticomplementary triangle of ABC, and that it is the reflection of the orthocenter of ABC around the circumcenter. The Steiner circle of a triangle is concentric with the nine-point circle and has radius 3/2 the circumradius of the triangle; the de Longchamps point is the homothetic center of the Steiner circle and the circumcircle. ==Additional properties==

As the reflection of the orthocenter around the circumcenter, the de Longchamps point belongs to the line through both of these points, which is the Euler line of the given triangle. Thus, it is collinear with all the other triangle centers on the Euler line, which along with the orthocenter and circumcenter include the centroid and the center of the nine-point circle. The de Longchamp point is also collinear, along a different line, with the incenter and the Gergonne point of its triangle. The three circles centered at A, B, and C, with radii s-a, s-b, and s-c respectively (where s is the semiperimeter) are mutually tangent, and there are two more circles tangent to all three of them, the inner and outer Soddy circles; the centers of these two circles also lie on the same line with the de Longchamp point and the incenter. The de Longchamps point itself lies on this curve, as does its reflection the orthocenter. ==References==