"Arc minutes" is a term used in astronomy and geography to measure small angles. It represents a division of a degree into smaller parts, similar to how an hour is divided into minutes. So, an arc minute is a small unit to measure the angular distance on a circle or the Earth's surface.
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- 6 - inch or larger telescopes will show many more stars tightly packed within an area 13 arc minutes in apparent size. (messier-objects.com)
- «The angular resolution of the eye is 0.6 arc minutes per pixel,» he wrote in an e-mail to tech publications in 2010. (scientificamerican.com)
- NGC 6638 is a class VI globular cluster occupying an area of 2 arc minutes about half a degree to the east of Lambda Sagittarii. (constellation-guide.com)
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