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Arc minutes. There are 60 minutes (denoted as 60') of arc in 1 degree. In the sky, with an unobstructed horizon (as on the ocean), one can see about 180 degrees of sky at once, and there are 90 degrees from the true horizon to the zenith.

Arc minute: A measure of angular separation, - one sixtieth of a degree.
Arc second: Another measure of angular separation, - one sixtieth of an arc minute. (1/3600th of a degree.) ...

Arc Degree
a unit of angular measure in which there are 360 arc degrees in a full circle.
Arc Minute
one 1/60 of a degree.

arc minute
A unit of measurement that describes the apparent angular size of an object. It is equivalent to one sixtieth (1/60) of a degree. The angular size of the Moon is about 30 arc minutes.

Arc (measurement of). Angles on the celestial sphere, measured in degrees, minutes and seconds. Arc may be an expression of the angular distance between two celestial objects or the angular size of an object.

arc-minutes {or minutes of arc}: an angular measure equal to 1/60th of a degree. Preferred notation [' or arcmin].

Arc Spectra
The spectra of neutral atoms produced in a laboratory arc (cf. spark spectra).
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ARC SECOND
An arc second is equal to one-sixtieth of an arc-minute.
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ARC: Aggregation of Red Cells
ARS: Archive and Retrieval Subsystem (PPCU)
ARTEMIS: Project Management Software System - Metier Product ...

arc second A unit of angular measure of which there are 60 in 1 arc minute (or therefore 3600 in 1 arc degree).
astronomy Branch of science dedicated to the study of everything in the universe that lies above Earth's atmosphere.

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an arc or circle of colors that appears in the sky opposite the sun. A rainbow is caused by the sunlight shining through raindrops, spray or mist.
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The colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue indigo and violet make up a rainbow.

s = arc subtended by θ
r = radius of the circle
The magnitudes of the linear and angular velocities are related by: ...

The arc of the horizon, contained between the vertical plane and the prime vertical circle, if reckoned from the east or west, or between the meridian and the plane, reckoned from the north or south.
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Ring Arc Closeup (QuickTime (MOV) format, 2.1 Mbytes).
This animation zooms in on one of Neptune's ring arcs. The "rope-like" structure is caused by smear, since the clumps moved significantly while the the camera shutter was open.

Spark or arc (emission) spectroscopy - is used for the analysis of metallic elements in solid samples. For non-conductive materials, a sample is ground with graphite powder to make it conductive.

Degree of Arc
One degree of arc is 1/360 of a full circle. The apparent sizes of objects as seen from Earth can be measured in degrees of arc. The angular diameter of the full moon or the Sun as seen from Earth is one-half of a degree.

Minute of Arc - A unit of angular measurement equal to 1/60 of a degree
Mode of Oscillation - A particular pattern of vibration of the Sun
Molecular Cloud - A relatively dense, cool interstellar cloud in which molecules are common ...

Minute of arc An angular measure (each degree is divided in 60 minutes of arc).

Second of Arc: A very small angle which is equal to 1/60th of a minute arc (which, in turn, is 1/60th of a degree). A line on the sky from horizon to horizon extends 180 degrees. A U.S.

Minute of Arc
A measurement of the sky which includes degrees, minutes and seconds.. There are 60 minutes of arc in one degree.
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If an auroral arc represented a definite selfluminous portion of space of small transverse dimensions at a uniform height above the ground, ...

arc minute a small angle unit = 1/60th of a degree. arc second a tiny angle unit = 1/3600th of a degree = 1/60th of an arc minute. asteroid boulder to mountain-sized piece of rock remaining from the early solar system.

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(d) Elementary particles produced when cosmic rays enter the upper atmosphere. [McL97]
(e) A charged lepton. The analogue of electron in the second generation of particles. [D89]
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Vertical circle:
An arc of a great circle drawn from the zenith through a star and perpendicular to the horizon.

More generally, the arc length of a portion of the circumference, as a function of the angle subtended, is given by an incomplete elliptic integral.

(symbol ) Angular distance north or south of the celestial equator; the arc of an hour circle between the celestial equator and a point on the celestial sphere, measured northward or southward from the celestial equator through 90 degrees, ...

As originally used, the term applied only to instruments having an arc of 60 degrees, a sixth of a circle, from which the instrument derived its name. Such an instrument had a range of 120 degrees.

The brighter, fifth magnitude (5.00) Kappa Her A, is a class G (G8) giant that lies 27 seconds of arc away from the sixth magnitude (6.25) class K (K1) giant Kappa Her B.

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The short arc of observations did not allow computation of an orbit of sufficient accuracy to predict where the object would reappear when it moved back into the night sky, and so it was "lost.

The sextant consists basically of a triangular frame, the bottom of which is a graduated arc of 60°; a telescope is attached horizontally to the plane of the frame.

It represents the distance at which the radius of the Earth's orbit subtends an angle of one second of arc; thus a star at a distance of one parsec would have a parallax of one second, ...

Mars is 72 million miles from Earth today, but the spacecraft will travel more than four times that distance on its outbound-arc trajectory to intercept the red planet on March 10, 2006.

For example, if the angular size of the object is one arc minute and through a telescope, its apparent size becomes 30 arc minutes, then we say the magnification is 30.

Generally credited to astronomer Herbert Hall Turner (1860-1930), the term "parsec" (pc) -- a contraction of "parallax second" -- is a unit of distance used by astronomers since at least the early 1900s, that is derived from a "parallax of one arc ...

d (distance) will be in units of Parsecs, and p is of course in arc seconds (small fractions of a degree, whose symbol is ").

Kristian Birkeland (1908)[1] deduced that the currents flowed in the east-west directions along the auroral arc, and such currents, ...

The nearest stars have an annual parallax of less than 1 arc second. In contrast, the diameter of the Sun on the sky is 32 arc minutes, the diameter on the sky of Venus at inferior conjunction is 1 arc minute, ...

The apparent sizes for the Moon or Sun is around 32 minutes of arc and additional mathematics are required to find the actual linear size they would be reproduced on the film.

When Penfield examined the survey data, he found buried in the noisy data a huge underground "arc", with its ends pointing south, in the Caribbean off the Yucatan that was inconsistent with what he knew about the region's geology.

5 second of arc at the best astronomical sites on Earth, while the worst I've ever seen at a professional observatory was about 8 seconds of arc (we gave up observing that night; more typically, ...

5 nm, spatial resolution of 3 x 6 arc-min, and sensitivity of 3 rayleighs. The visible channel covered 350-900 nm, with spectral resolution of 1 nm, spatial resolution of 3x6 arc-min, and sensitivity of 10 rayleighs.

In order to obtain higher resolution, arrays of antennas are used as interferometers giving resolutions of approximately 1 arc second, equivalent to that of large optical telescopes under ideal viewing conditions.

The Sun, as it turns out, has an apparent diameter of about 32 arc minutes (a minute is equal to 1/60th of a degree; a second of an arc is equal to 1/60th of a minute).

A solar prominence (also known as a filament) is an arc of gas that erupts from the surface of the Sun. Prominences can loop hundreds of thousands of miles into space.

Now draw an imaginary line along the handle of the dipper and continue the arc across the sky. Eventually this will lead you to the very bright star, Arcturus in the constellation Boötes. If you continue the arc further, you will reach Spica in Virgo.

Typically surface brightness is expressed as stellar magnitudes per square arc-minute or arc-second. Galaxies observed by amateurs have an average surface brightness of about 13.

5 minutes of arc, and the radius r of Venus is about 1 minute. As noted for AB etc. on a preceding page, R and r are not distances but visual angles.

Angular distance is the measure of an arc (a segment of the circumference of a circle). Angular distance measures the proportion of a circle that the arc in question consists of.

The following morning, the 27th, Venus will be only 25 arc-minutes - less than the diameter of the full moon - above the planet Neptune.

31 pc, which means that even the nearest star shows a parallax shift of less than one arc second. Parallax measurements can be obtained out to distances of about 20 pc. Almost all the stars you see in the night sky are at greater distances than that.

Unlike in the present-day universe, the Lynx arc's stars have surface temperatures of 80,000° C - more than twice as hot as the stars in the Orion nebula.

Analemma, Annular Eclipse, Anticrepuscular Ray, Aphelion, Astronomical Twilight, Astronomical Unit, Atmospheric Phenomena, Babcock's Dynamo Hypothesis, Carrington Rotation Number, Chromosphere, Circumzenithal Arc, Civil Twilight, Conjunction, Corona, ...

Notice in the MTF curves that the Newtonian with a 5 arc-minute field of view has almost the same amount of contrast degradation as the Lurie-Houghton with a 72 arc-minute or 1.2 degree field of view.

Comets - In the case of comets, we speak of a magnitude that is "integrated" over an observed coma diameter of several arc minutes; this is called the comet's "total (visual) magnitude", and is usually denoted by the variable m1.

Amongst the bounty of previously unseen terrain is an intriguing crater exhibiting an arc-shaped depression on its floor. This type of crater is known as a pit crater, and other examples have been seen elsewhere on Mercury.

Andromeda's three brightest stars lie along an arc that stretches to the northeast of the Square of Pegasus, of which Alpheratz forms a corner.

The participant rolls the BB in an arc on an inclined glass tabletop where it encounters a "Jupiter magnet" revolving around a central image of the Sun. The BB represents a spacecraft on an interplanetary trajectory.

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