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Meaning of "arc minutes"

Arc minutes are a unit of measurement used in astronomy and cartography to measure angles. An arc minute is equal to 1/60th of a degree, and it is used to precisely describe angles and distances on a spherical or curved surface, such as the Earth or the celestial sphere
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It is located fifteen arc minutes due east of gamma Delphini.
It covers an area of approximately 6 arc minutes across.
Its diameter is about 23 arc minutes and it is readily viewable in small telescopes.
The diameter appeared to be about 9 arc minutes.
Leo I is located only 12 arc minutes from Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation.
We are drifting from the Resolute at a separating speed of 40 arc minutes per second.
This difference of 4.15 arc minutes explains phenomena such as the super moon.
These two stars are separated by 12 arc minutes.
This is about 28 arc minutes ( outside dimension ), corres ponding to about 25 arc minutes centre dimension.
They are separated by 7 arc minutes on the sky.
Each degree is divided into 60 units, the so-called arc minutes.
The smallest angle of an Isosceles Triangle gains thirty arc minutes ( half a degree ) each generation.
The cluster has a visual magnitude of 3.8 and spans an angular diameter of 20 arc minutes.
The full moon is about 30 arc minutes in diameter.
He estimated the magnitude as about 8.0 and gave the coma diameter of 3 arc minutes.

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Centration 3 arc minutes.
Mizar and Alcor are separated by 12 arc minutes.
The cluster appears 18 arc minutes in size.
It is separated from Theta-2 Serpentis by 7 arc minutes.
Its apparent size is 5 arc minutes.
It has an apparent size of 7 arc minutes.
Perpendicularity 5 arc minutes.
Technically the Moon is around 33 arc minutes wide.
The patch of sky in this area, is 3.4 arc minutes on each side.

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