{"id":4624,"date":"2007-12-28T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2007-12-28T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T07:45:00","slug":"r-the-magic-figure-in-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"R, the Magic Figure in Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/89VFb9t69nM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>R is the Radius of a Circle. It is 206265 secs and is an important figure is Astronomy<\/p>\n<p>We talk about the Circles in Astronomy. The Ecliptic is a Circle, the Zodiac is a Circle and so on. And how do we measure the Radius of the Circle?<\/p>\n<p>The Magic Figure of 206265 seconds is got by these derivations <\/p>\n<p>Circumference = 2 Pi r<\/p>\n<p>360 degrees = 2 Pi r<\/p>\n<p>r = 360 degrees \/ 2 Pi<\/p>\n<p>= 360 degrees \/ 2* 3.14<\/p>\n<p>= 57.3 degrees<\/p>\n<p>( One degree is 60 minutes and one minute is 60 seconds and hence one degree = 60*60 = 3600 seconds )<\/p>\n<p>= 57.3 degrees * 3600 seconds<\/p>\n<p>= 206265 seconds of arc<\/p>\n<p>This is the how the Magic Figure in Astronomy, 206265 seconds, is derived !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R is the Radius of a Circle. It is 206265 secs and is an important figure is Astronomy We talk about the Circles in Astronomy. The Ecliptic is a Circle, the Zodiac is a Circle and so on. And how do we measure the Radius of the Circle? The Magic Figure of 206265 seconds is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=4624\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;R, the Magic Figure in Astronomy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}