Sentence examples for degree apart from inspiring English sources

In order for two lunar eclipses to occur in one month, the Sun and the Moon must be less than 1 degree apart twice in 30 days.

In the introduction to his 1985 book on Messiaen the critic Paul Griffiths calls him "the first great composer whose works exist entirely after, and to a large degree apart from, the great Western tradition".

The human eye, with normal visual acuity (20/20 vision), can resolve lines spaced less than one arc minute (one-sixtieth of one degree) apart, which is about 60 times better than a bee.

The Moon is half a degree across in the sky, and the Earth's umbral shadow (the "dark" part) is about one and a half degrees across; therefore, in order for a lunar eclipse to occur, the centres of the Moon and the Sun (which governs where the Earth's shadow lies) must be less than a degree apart, which means that the Moon must be less than a degree above or below the ecliptic.

For each degree apart one point is selected as grid point.

Considering the nature of the residuals, and their variations in space and in time, taking the difference between the data from the lower pair of satellites in the East-West direction, spaced about 1.4 degree apart (at the geographic equator, see Friis-Christensen et al., 2006), appears to be an efficient way to mitigate the contributions of large-scale non-lithospheric fields.

Hipparcos worked by observing stars through two telescopes aimed 58 degrees apart.

Two partial-thickness limbal-based scleral flaps are made 180 degrees apart diagonally, and the haptics of the PC IOL are externalized to place them beneath the flaps.

So if the two cities are seven degrees apart, that would constitute seven-360ths of the full circle -- about one-fiftieth.

They will appear to be only 0.2 degrees apart, less than half the width of a little finger when held out at arm's length.

"Karen and I are ideologically about two degrees apart, and it would be hard to tell who is left of the other," he said.