annual parallax
Britishnoun
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It can further be demonstrated that these ellipses are really circles parallel to the ecliptic; so that we might hastily assume that annual parallax was the cause of the phenomenon discovered by Bradley.
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
German astronomers, Seeliger and others, have long used a stellar unit of distance corresponding to an annual parallax of 0″.2, which has been called a “Siriusweite”.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
The seventh and eighth columns give the annual parallax and the corresponding distance expressed in siriometers.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
The annual parallax can only be determined for near stars, nearer than, say, 5 siriometers.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
Half of this major axis, or, what comes to the same thing, the angle which the radius of the earth's orbit subtends as seen from the star, is called the star's "annual parallax."
From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
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