The star Rasalhague has a parallax angle of 0.0.0698''. What is its distance in parsecs?
The star Rasalhague has a parallax angle of 0.0.0698''. What is its distance in parsecs?
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Parallax is inversly porpotional to distance .
Closer stars have larger parallax while distant star have smaller parallax.
Mathematically this realtion can be expressed as
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The star Rasalhague has a parallax angle of 0.0.0698''. What is
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