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Old 01-February-2008, 08:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Robert Tulip View Post
As I understand it when we measure the stars from earth we are also effectively measuring from the sun, as stellar distances are too large for parallax.
You do observe parallax. It's not huge, but it is sufficient to allow us to measure the distances to our local stallar neighbourhood.