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What is the apparent westward movement of a planet against background of star is called?
Retrograde Motion
What is the apparent westward movement of a planet against the background of star called?
Retrograde Motion
What is the apparent movement of a star used to measure its distance from earth?
The apparent movement of a star used to measure its distance from Earth is called parallax. Astronomers observe how a star's position changes relative to more distant stars as Earth orbits the Sun, allowing them to calculate the star's distance based on the angle of this shift.
A star brightness is called?
Apparent magnitude.
What is a name for the apparent movement of a star used to measure its distance from earth?
parallax
What does it mean when a star has a larger parallax than another star?
It means that its apparent movement - due to Earth's movement around the Sun - is greater, and that therefore the star is closer to us.
How bright a star is as seen from earth is called?
This is called "Apparent Magnitude".
The apparent shift in the spectrum of a star as it moves toward or away from the earth is explained by the phenomenon known as the?
Doppler effect. This effect causes the wavelengths of light from a star to appear shorter (blueshifted) as it moves towards the Earth and longer (redshifted) as it moves away, providing valuable information about the star's motion in space.
What is brightness of a star measurable on a scale is called .?
apparent magnatude
What is the brightness of a star measured on a scale called?
apparent magnatude
What is a star's apparent shift in motion called?
Motion parallax.
What is paralax?
An apparent change in position of a star due to the movement of the Earth in it's orbit. The closer the star is there is a larger shift and the further the star is there is a smaller shift.
