- A
minute of arc,
arcminute (arcmin), arc minute, or
minute arc,
denoted by the
symbol ′, is a unit of
angular measurement equal to 1/60 of one degree...
-
degree (58662/3 feet per
arcminute). In 1633,
William Oughtred suggested 349,800 feet to a
degree (5830 feet per
arcminute). Both
Gunter and Oughtred...
- The
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI)
consists of a pair of
interferometric radio telescopes - the
Small and
Large Arrays -
located at the
Mullard Radio...
- In geometry, a
solid angle (symbol: Ω) is a
measure of the
amount of the
field of view from some
particular point that a
given object covers. That is,...
- world,
including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager. It was
founded by the
University of
Cambridge and...
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galaxies north of
declination -02°30' and to a
limiting diameter of 1.0
arcminute or to a
limiting apparent magnitude of 14.5. The
primary source of data...
-
featured a coma
about a half
arcminute across.
Further observations reported the coma was as
large as
three arcminutes across and the tail up to 156...
- side.
Humans can
resolve with
their naked eyes
diameters down to
about 1
arcminute (approximately 0.017° or 0.0003 radians). This
corresponds to 0.3 m at...
- but SI-accepted
multiples of time (minute and hour) and
angle (degree,
arcminute, and arcsecond) are ****agesimal (base 60). The "metric system" has been...
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subtends an
angle of five
arcminutes and the
critical distinguishing features of the
optotype subtend an
angle of one
arcminute.
Snellen defined "standard...
