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A.1 Angular Quantities
In astronomy, angular quantities are generally expressed in sexagesimal units.
The main units of measure of plane and solid angles are the following:
The whole sky spans a solid angle
while the sky region where the absolute value of the Galactic latitude
is greater than a given value measures
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Mattia Vaccari
2000-12-05