formula for finding the angular size of satellites

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2003 - 08:57:23 EDT

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I came a cross a message on seesat

http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-1997/0305.html

It says the following

Rob Matson was kind enough to give me a formula for finding the angular
size of satellites. (L/R) * 206.3 = A. L = length in meters, R = range in
kilometers, A = angular size in arc seconds.

After I made a small correction to how I calculated the data, I get a close result with rob's
would give.

Kevin

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