However, the two values differ by less than 12 minutes of arc.

The transition between the two colours must take place over an angle not greater than three minutes of arc.

The movements are worth a few minutes of arc, moving at regular intervals about three to four per second.

The separation is nearly 7 minutes of arc, but again there is no real association.

A minute of arc on the planet Earth is 1 nautical mile.

This is apparent especially in its accuracy, as it can frequently achieve less than one minute of arc.

He lowered the barrel a little more and brought it over anotherfew minutes of arc to the left.

To put these figures in perspective, the Sun's angular diameter is 32 minutes of arc, a little over half a degree.

This provides the navigator with the ability to read the scale to the nearest minute of arc.

The circles are read using a vernier scale, accurate to about 5 minutes of arc.

So the first light reaches the ground when the centre of the Sun is still below the horizon by about 50 minutes of arc.

In comparison this still very deep eclipse was offcenter by over 12 minutes of arc.

Delta is another double, with a separation of over 10 minutes of arc.

Many shooters are able to achieve one minute of arc with unmodified K31s.

One minute of arc equals one kilometer, near enough not to matter.

L2 Puppis has a visual 10th magnitude companion about a minute of arc away.

This distance is usually specified in minutes of arc, which translate to approximately 1 inch at 100 yards.

He'd turned only a fraction of a minute of arc, but they had turned less.

The angular resolution of the naked eye is about 1 minute of arc.

The human eye in its best years has a maximum angular resolution of one minute of arc.

In the second release some coordinates for southern hemisphere regions have an uncertainty over 1 minute of arc.

The apparent separation between the components of a double star is given in seconds or minutes of arc.

Its apparent size would be at most 26 minutes of arc, about the same size as the Moon seen from Earth.

On Earth one nautical mile is one minute of arc - check?"

Any unit of angle can be used for declination, but it is often expressed in minute of arc.