Angular distance
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angular-distance-276-15605472
title:
Angular distance
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Angular distance or angular separation is the measure of the angle between the orientation of two straight lines, rays, or vectors in three-dimensional space, or the central angle subtended by the radii through two points on a sphere. When the rays are lines of sight from an observer to two points in space, it is known as the apparent distance or apparent separation. Angular distance appears in mathematics and all natural sciences. In the classical mechanics of rotating objects, it appears along
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Angle between the two sightlines or two objects as viewed from an observer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_distance
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2023-11-04T19:22:51Z
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