Wikipedia / Spat (angular unit)
Wikipedia / Spat (angular unit)
The spat (symbol sp), from the Latin spatium ("space"), is a unit of solid angle. One spat is equal to 4steradians or approximately square degrees of solid angle . Thus 1sp is the solid angle subtended by a complete sphere at its center.
See also
Turn (angle) — the plane angle counterpart of the spat, equivalent to 2radians