What is stellar parallax and how is it measured?
1 Answer
Aug 5, 2016
stellar parallax is a method of finding.the distance to nearby stars.
Explanation:
Earth moves about 300 million kilometers in one year. This is taken ans base and trigonometry is used to find distances to stars. distance in parsecs= 1/P where p is the parallax angle The apparent shift in position of stars is measured and angle p is the parallax. .
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