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What is PARALLACTIC SECOND?

Asked by Nitin Gupta(student) , on 3/5/10

Difference in the direction of a celestial object as seen by observers from two widely separated points, a measurement used to find a body 's distance. The two positions of the observers and that of the object form a triangle; its apex angle (at the object) is twice the parallax, which becomes smaller with increasing distance. Observations for calculating the Sun 's parallax can be made simultaneously from two different places on Earth 's surface; that value reaches a maximum of 8.794 seconds of arc for observers at points separated by Earth 's diameter. Observing the difference in an object 's position as seen from Earth at points six months apart in its orbit (stellar, or annual, parallax) allows measurements of distances (e.g., of stars) too large to be made from two places on Earth 's surface. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, has a stellar parallax of 0.76 second of arc. Highly precise parallaxes, and thus the positions, of more than 100,000 stars in the Sun 's vicinity were determined from data collected by the European Space Agency 's Hipparcos satellite (launched 1989).

Posted by Ashish(student)on 3/5/10

What do you mean by -- ' x ' seconds of arc where x refers to any value?

And I didn 't asked what is parallax I asked What is PARALLACTIC SECOND?

Posted by Nitin Gupta(student)on 3/5/10

what is parallictic angle?

Posted by mbruth15...(student)on 8/4/11

angle made by an arc of one second at a point on earth or observation point....is called an parsec...ok...

Posted by www.faraz0594.....(student)on 12/4/11

what is parallactic second

Posted by Ghulam Ullah(student)on 3/6/12

S.I unit of form factor

Posted by Ghulam Ullah(student)on 3/6/12

what is S.I unit of form factor

Posted by Ghulam Ullah(student)on 3/6/12