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11.3.1: Parallaxes of the Comparison Stars

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Unless you are unlucky enough to choose as one of your comparison stars Proxima Centauri (whose parallax is much less than an arcsecond), the parallaxes of the comparison stars are not normally something that the asteroid astrometrist has to worry about.


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