annual parallax
Britishnoun
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If the movement arise from annual parallax, it is easy to see where the place of the star will be for any position of the earth.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
For these reasons Bradley had set up this instrument at Kew, to attempt the proof of the earth’s motion by observing the annual parallax of stars.
From History of Astronomy by George Forbes
With their annual parallax, however, the case was very different.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
It should also be noticed that the movements of a star produced by annual parallax are much smaller than those due to aberration.
From The Story of the Heavens by Sir Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball
Here we have only to do with near stars for which the annual parallax is well determined.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Carl Vilhelm Ludvig Charlier
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