annual parallax
Britishnoun
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Here we have only to do with near stars for which the annual parallax is well determined.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
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
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 Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir
The annual parallax of a star is the angle under which one would see the radius, or half-diameter, of the terrestrial orbit from it.
From Astronomy for Amateurs by Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice)
The annual parallax of a heavenly body is the angle subtended at that body by the radius of the Earth’s orbit.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
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