Measuring Parallax

Measuring Parallax

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Author: trish-goza
| Published: 2016-06-13 | 550 Views

Parallax is the apparent displacement of an object against the background when seen from two different perspectives Definition of Parallax To measure the distance to a star astronomers measure the parallax shift of the star using 2 points of view that are as far apart as possibleat opposite sides of Earths orbit

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