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Originally posted by antoniseb@Nov 30 2004, 08:49 PM
It was about 10% off to the Pleides, but much less than 1% to Alpha Centauri.
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It might have been the Hyades that was off by 10%, I'd have to look it up. In any case, we haven't exactly been out with a tape measure to validate the distances. The probe simply had a very precise method of determining parallax, down to about 3 milli-arcseconds.
Stars that were more than 50 parsecs away didn't get much precision.