Concept information
Preferred term
angular diameter
Definition(s)
- The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular distance describing how large a sphere or circle appears from a given point of view. In the vision sciences, it is called the visual angle, and in optics, it is the angular aperture (of a lens). The angular diameter can alternatively be thought of as the angular displacement through which an eye or camera must rotate to look from one side of an apparent circle to the opposite side. Humans can resolve with their naked eyes diameters of up to about 1 arcminute (approximately 0.017° or 0.0003 radians). This corresponds to 0.3 m at a 1 km distance, or to perceiving Venus as a disk under optimal conditions. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_diameter)
Broader concept(s)
Synonym(s)
- angular size
- apparent diameter
- apparent size
In other languages
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French
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diamètre apparent
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taille angulaire
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taille apparente
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/MDL-Z87TJ8XD-J
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