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Do scientists use stellar parallax to determine a star's temperature?
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∙ 14y ago
Not if they have the faintest clue what they're doing. Parallax is used to measure distance, not temperature.
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What was not seen telescopically by galileo?
Stellar Parallax
Who discovered stellar parallax?
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was the first person to find the parallax of a fixed star.
What is the cause of stellar parallax?
Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Why did the existence of stellar parallax not convince people in Copernicus time that his model was better than Ptolemys geopcentric model?
Stellar parallax could not be observed until hundreds of years after Copernicus: the effect is very small. Rejection of the Copernican system was not irrational.
Who is the first person to measure the parallax of a star?
The first person to notice and report on stellar parallax was the Italian astronomer, Giuseppe Calandrelli (1749-1827). He reported the parallax for alpha-Lyrae. The first reliable measurement was made, for 61 Cygni, by the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel in 1838.
Distance to nearby stars can be determined from?
stellar parallax
One way in which scientists can determine the surface temperature of a star is by its?
There are several things scientists can do to determine the surface temperature of a star. Formulas utilizing Wein's law and the Stefanâ??Boltzmann law can calculate stellar temperatures. However, for a rough estimate, scientists can also use the color of a star in order to determine surface temperature.
What does stellar parallax prove?
Heliocentrism.
What was not seen telescopically by galileo?
Stellar Parallax
Stellar parallax is NOT a type of triangulation technique?
True
What can distances to nearby stars determined by?
Stellar parallax
Who discovered stellar parallax?
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was the first person to find the parallax of a fixed star.
The apparent shift in the position of nearby stars when compared to distant stars is?
Doug Fany answer: Parallax
What is the cause of stellar parallax?
Earth's orbit around the Sun.
What is stellar spectroscopy used for?
The purpose of stellar spectroscopy is to determine the chemical composition of stars, the temperature and some other characteristcs..
What measures star distance from the Earth?
Stellar Parallax Astronomers estimate the distance of nearby objects in space by using a method called stellar parallax, or trigonometric parallax. Simply put, they measure a star's apparent movement against the background of more distant stars as Earth revolves around the sun.
Why were early astronomers unable to detect stellar parallax?
Pressumably, they didn't have the high-precision devices required to measure those angles. You must consider that we are talking about extremely small angles - even the closest star has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree).
