| Subject: Re: What is a Low Angle |
| From: je2bwm |
| Date: 20/11/2003, 11:53 |
Hi,
"Angle range" means that how long the focal point of the telescope
traverses in the sky-map during one work-unit, in degrees. If the
telescope is tracking one steller object in your workunit, the focal
point is fixed in the sky map, and the angle range would be zero. This
is the ultimate Very Low Angle Range.
If the telescope keeps its direction with regard to the Earth, the
focal point passes through the sky as the Earth rotates, and your work
unit will have about 0.4 .. 0.5 degrees in 107 seconds.
stanmc wrote:
I'm not quite sure that is the correct description, but I've noticed in
this newsgroup many times that work units with a "low angle" take longer
to process (generally). So what is a low angle?
I'm not really looking for a description, but just examples such a degrees.
I did use the search tool, but all the entries found no matches. i.e.
low, angle.