2. ASP: Biography of a Star: Our Sun's Birth, Life, and Death
... Instead, our eyes only detect the angular size of objects. ... brain can use this knowledge and the object's angular size to estimate its distance ... Based on your friend's apparent angular size and your knowledge of his actual size ...
3. A Sample of 669 Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Sources
... 2000 February 10 Since radio sources with Ultra Steep Spectra (USS; alpha -35ddeg, we selected only sources with angular sizes Theta Comparison with spectrally unbiased samples at similar flux density levels, shows that our spectral index, flux density ...
4. APOD: 2008 August 1 - Moon Games
... But apparent angular size , or the angle covered by an object, can also be important ... Angular size depends on distance, the farther away an object is, the smaller an ...
5. Астронет > Moon Games
... But apparent angular size , or the angle covered by an object, can also be important ... Angular size depends on distance, the farther away an object is, the smaller an ...
7. http://zebu.uoregon.edu/2004/a321/hw1.html
... This transit allows for the angular size of the dark spot (i.e. Venus) to be ... The angular size of Venus, as seen from the Earth is dV/EV (where dV is the physical ... This angular size is in units of radians. ...
9. zhtools
... ad2rad h:m:s d:m:s -> radians angle2size angular to proper size conversion in different cosmologies size2angle proper to angular size conversion in different cosmologies distance angular distance between two points on the sky rad2ad radians -> h:m:s d:m:s ...