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arcminutes (noun): A unit of angular measurement equal to one sixtieth of a degree, commonly used in astronomy and navigation
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Some precision protractors further divide degrees into arcminutes.
At only 8 arcminutes across, its disc would be barely discernible.
This small extract from the VISTA infrared image covers a field six arcminutes across.
There is another spectroscopic binary 8 arcminutes distant, a 7th magnitude pair showing an F8 spectral type.
Astronomers often measure angles smaller than a degree, in both arcminutes and arcseconds.
It measures 7 arcminutes by 1 arcminute.
Spherical aberration limits the resolution of a 7 mm pupil to about 3 arcminutes per line pair.
Each degree has 60 arcminutes and each minute has 60 arcseconds.
From this distance, the Sun 's angular diameter is reduced to one and a quarter arcminutes across.
It is located 9.6 arcminutes away from the north ecliptic pole to the west-northwest.
The telescope has an imaging field of view of 34 arcminutes.
This image, 20 arcminutes across, shows only the central parts of Omega Centauri.
The system consists of two binary pairs separated by 5.3 arcminutes.
The loop extends over about 600 arcminutes as seen from Earth, covering much of Orion.
Total field of view is 5 arcminutes.
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This estimate was based upon an inaccurate guess of the planet 's angular diameter as 3.0 arcminutes.
At this distance, the sun covers only about 3 arcminutes in the sky of Saturn.
For example, each pair of video lines typically defines a projection angle of 7 to 12 arcminutes.
It is separated by 7 arcminutes from θ ².
The first wide-field camera pointed towards Polaris and gave a coarse orientation up to 15 arcminutes.
The field of view is about 6 x 3 arcminutes.
In its initial configuration, it measures up to multipoles of 3,000 with a resolution of around 6 arcminutes.
It forms a double star with 12 Camelopardalis, which is only 3 arcminutes away.
Column 6, The angular diameter of the galaxy arcminutes.
The apparent radius of the Sun at the horizon is 16 arcminutes.
