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Page 266
... parallax , show- ing the distances of the Sun and other stars from Earth , and for his early use of photog- raphy in mapping the heavens . To determine the parallaxes , he perfected the use of the he- liometer , a telescope that uses a ...
... parallax , show- ing the distances of the Sun and other stars from Earth , and for his early use of photog- raphy in mapping the heavens . To determine the parallaxes , he perfected the use of the he- liometer , a telescope that uses a ...
Page 267
... parallax . In 1888-89 he carried out , with the cooperation of many astronomers , a program of intensive observation of selected minor planets with the heliometer . This led to the first determination ( 1901 ) of the solar parallax with ...
... parallax . In 1888-89 he carried out , with the cooperation of many astronomers , a program of intensive observation of selected minor planets with the heliometer . This led to the first determination ( 1901 ) of the solar parallax with ...
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... parallax of a star ( Alpha Centauri ) . He withheld the announcement of his findings until 1839 , a few months after both Friedrich Bessel and Friedrich Struve had received credit for first measuring stellar parallaxes . Henderson was ...
... parallax of a star ( Alpha Centauri ) . He withheld the announcement of his findings until 1839 , a few months after both Friedrich Bessel and Friedrich Struve had received credit for first measuring stellar parallaxes . Henderson was ...
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