Observer motion produces the cosmic microwave background dipole: to first order in β=v/c,The direction of motion is hotter and the opposite direction cooler. Its full-sky pattern has one broad positive hemisphere and one broad negative hemisphere; it is not concentrated in the galactic plane.
T0ΔT(θ)=βcosθ.
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