Yep, I meant to write diameters. > From Earth, solar radius = 0.25 degrees. 233 solar radii in 1 radian. I don't understand this. I think I understand that th

Yep, I meant to write diameters. > From Earth, solar radius = 0.25 degrees. 233 solar radii in 1 radian. I don't understand this. I think I understand that the sun would take up 0.5 degrees of the "view" (I don't have a good word for this) when looked at from Earth, so radius is 0.25 degrees. But how does the second statement follow? I get that a radian is about 57.3 degrees, so 57.3 / 0.25 = 230, but why why does 1 radian make sense to use here?