(astronomy) The subtended angle at a star formed by the mean radius of the earth's orbit; it indicates distance to the star.
stellar parallax
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- George Phillips Bond (American astronomer)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
- Struve (German-Russian-American astronomers)
- Asaph Hall
- Robert Hooke
- Nicolaus Copernicus
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