Sentence examples for width of the moon from inspiring English sources

In terms of diameter – the width of the moon – it will be about 14% wider than the smallest full moons.

Starting in 1938, Peter van de Kamp at Swarthmore College spent decades regularly photographing Barnard's star, a faint red dwarf star located six light-years away that shifts its position in the celestial sky by the width of the Moon every 180 years, faster than any other star.

Kepler's rules, however, did not yield comparable accuracy for the motion of the Moon, and even in the case of the planets the calculated locations were sometimes off by as much as a fourth of the width of the Moon.

It's also where the width of the moon's shadow is widest, the altitude of the sun in the sky near its highest and the duration of totality nearly the longest (2 minutes and 40.1 seconds).

The width of the moon is equal to one-half (0.50) of a degree. .

Separation is 0.62 of a degree or one and a quarter times the apparent width of the moon from Jupiter to the moon's upper edge.

The region was tiny, just one-twelfth the width of the full moon, yet Hubble revealed around 3000 distant collections of stars.

Both telescopes suggest that most of the ripples are just under 1° across (about twice the width of the full moon in the sky).

The so-called Veil nebula (right, above), also known as the Cygnus Loop, extends for three degrees -- about six times the width of the full moon -- across the northern sky.

As seen on the sky, those ripples should span about 1 degree, or about twice the width of the full moon, assuming the light from them travels to earth on straight lines.

On both sides of Palomar 5, a team led by astronomer Eva Grebel of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy MPIAA) in Heidelberg, Germany, found long streams of stars, spanning a total length of 13,000 light-years, or 20 times the apparent width of the full moon on the sky.