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One sided worksheet with questions on stellar distances and calculations involving the parallax method. With worked solutions.

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beckyalan123

5 years ago
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I love the fact there are pictures to show where the two stars are near the well-known constellations. Please note though that the answer to the last question is wrong. Since it is not working in radians you can not use tan p =p, thus need to do 'inverse tan' to calculate p. Alternatively, you can convert 8.7 light years to 2.667 parsecs, then you can easily calculate that the parallax angle = 1/2.667 = 0.375 arc seconds.

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