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The parsec (3.26 light-years) is defined as the distance for which the annual parallax is 1arcsecond.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The companion has an apparent brightness of 7.3 at an angular distance of 3.2 arcseconds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At an angular separation of 3.25 arcseconds is a magnitude 8.76 companion star.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the infrared the integrated image can resolve down to 0.0005 arcseconds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As of 2007, the two stars had an angular separation of 1.206 arcseconds at a position angle of 35.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The accuracy defined as the accumulated error per revolution is 25 arcseconds.
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It has a core radius of 48 arcseconds and a half-mass radius of 147 arcseconds (2.5 arcminutes).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The asteroid was photographed with a faint halo 30 arc-seconds across.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The companion is an eighth magnitude star located 3.1 arcseconds away.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This system will produce diffraction-limited images over a 30arcseconddiameter field-of-view.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pair are optically separated by 3.6 arcseconds, giving the real separation as 21 kpc.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars are 14.1 arcseconds apart in the sky.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The spatial sampling scale at the detector is 44m perarcsecondgiving a field of view of about 10.5 arcminutes on the side.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has an optical companion, a twelfth magnitude star located 5.5 arcseconds away.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A visual autocollimator can measure angles as small as 0.5arcsecond, while an electronic autocollimator can be up to 100 times more accurate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has an 11th magnitude companion 182 arcseconds from the primary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The second is an 11th magnitude star at a separation of 177 arcseconds with a position angle of 5.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The primary and secondary have a separation of 6.7 arcseconds at an angle of 319 degrees.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, this is still a very small movement overall, as there are 3,600 arcseconds in a degree of arc.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Observations have been made of weak gravitational lensing, in which light rays are deflected by only a few arcseconds.
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