angular distance in a sentence
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- These angle error signals indicate the angular distance between the center of the antenna beam and the position of the aircraft within the antenna beam.
- The mastery of latitude, the angular distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees along a meridian, goes back some 2, 000 years.
- After completing a sidereal month the Moon must move a little further to reach the new position having the same angular distance from the Sun.
- It was discovered by German astronomer Werner Landgraf at ? it had been the asteroid with the smallest angular distance from the Sun ever discovered.
- Until about March 2000, Achernar and Fomalhaut were the two first-magnitude stars furthest in angular distance from any other first-magnitude star in the celestial sphere.
- At an angular distance of 1.71 & prime; from the central star, the flow velocity of this lobe is measured to be 263 km / s.
- The star is surrounded by a spherical shell of ejected material that extends outward to an angular distance of 6 & Prime; with an expansion velocity of.
- The effect extends a greater angular distance from the viewer's shadow when the viewer is higher above the water, and can sometimes be seen from a plane.
- Viewed from Earth, Titan reaches an angular distance of about 20 Saturn radii ( just over ) from Saturn and subtends a disk 0.8 arcseconds in diameter.
- The crosses ( also known as fiducials ) were recorded on every exposed frame and provided a means of determining angular distances between objects in the field-of-view.