• XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    1" means 1 arcsecond, not 1 inch, for the Americans. 1 arcsecond is 1/60th of an arcminute. 1 arc minute is 1/60th of degree. So the 1" scale shown represents 1/3600th of a degree. The object is measured at 1.54 arcseconds