arcsecond

A unit of plane angle used by astronomers, = 1 second = 1/3600th of a degree. In terms of SI units, it is (π/648000) radians. Its symbol is “as”, or alternatively ″. It takes the SI prefixes milli-, micro- and pico-.

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