Arc minutes and so on...

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Lalla
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Arc minutes and so on...

Post #1by Lalla » 16.04.2006, 16:08

How can I tranform, for example, 12.6*7.2' (apparent size) on radius for Celestia?
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Re: Arc minutes and so on...

Post #2by hank » 16.04.2006, 22:08

Lalla wrote:How can I tranform, for example, 12.6*7.2' (apparent size) on radius for Celestia?


tan(size/2) = radius/distance

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Post #3by Lalla » 17.04.2006, 09:40

I've leave to you a pm.
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