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Old 07-03-2007, 08:15 AM
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field of view

If you look at, or close to, the celestial equator; set a star at the xtreme edge of the field, the time it takes in minutes, without a RA drive, to drift from one edge to the other times 15 will give the field of view in minutes of arc.
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