/sci/ - Reading declination in astronomy

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 13:35

when declination is written as 45 degrees, 12', 4", how many feet are in a degree? Does ' even mean feet in this case? I'm new with the whole astronomy thing.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 14:34 (sage)

lol americans

' = minute (1/60 of a degree)
" = second (1/60 of a minute)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute_of_arc

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 15:05

Thanks. And actually I'm Canadian. I had never seen minutes and seconds denoted in that manner before.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 16:24 (sage)

And actually I'm Canadian.
you are forgiven

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 22:25 (sage)

lol nationalism.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-23 0:59

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And yet you come to an American created board...what did you expect? GTFO the Internet that WE invented....

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-23 1:43

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Wrong, the nerds of America did, then the rest of America was like WE SORRY WE BULLIED U/DIDN'T HAVE SEX WITH U IN THE 60S N STUFF MAKE US RICH PLOZ.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-23 2:36 (sage)

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Name: Anonymous 2006-06-23 18:47

BLAST OFF

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-26 2:04

>>1
|how many feet are in a degree?

I fucking lol'd. This should be a new meme.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-26 2:09

>>6

and gtfo the WWW we invented. internet without WWW would never be mainstream. it would be like linux. So fuck you.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-26 2:10

oh and we also invented the computer. so fuck you americans.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-26 6:55

how many internets are in a www?

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-26 14:00

>>12

ENIAC, asshole. We win.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-29 2:44

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2, GTFO. The rest of you, why the hate? I'm an american here, proud of it, and I can't help but notice that this whole nationalism thing was started by that foriegner in 2. Feeling a little insecure about your nations, foreigners? Too bad, bring it somewhere else, this IS a science board, treat it as such.

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 4:10

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I'm >>12. I'm American. I was *defending* us. :p

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 4:11 (sage)

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Er..I meant >>14. GG posting at 1am D:

Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 6:43

AMERIKANS GTFO WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Reading declination in astronomy

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2 Name: Anonymous 2006-06-22 14:34 (sage)

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8 Name: Anonymous 2006-06-23 2:36 (sage)

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17 Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 4:11 (sage)

18 Name: Anonymous 2006-06-30 6:43