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Old 10-July-2008, 11:56 AM
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I don't think so. In order to figure parallax, you have to have a known distance. Since the distance from the first measurement to the last is the main unknown, we would need the distance to the star that seems to move more than the background ones. That would require knowing what that star is, and the position of the ship.

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