The 4-Point Backyard Diurnal Parallax Method

  • Eduardo Manuel Alvarez (Author)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/astroedu.2017.5.81667

Abstract

Measure the distance to an asteroid with a novel technique

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Issue
No. 5 (2017)
Section
Educational Activities
Categories
Astronomical instrumentation; Astrometry and celestial mechanics; Planetary systems
Language
English; Italian
Keywords
Earth's daily rotation, parallax, diurnal parallax, secular rate, local sidereal time, astrometry, topocentric and geocentric astrometry, asteroid distances, CCD imaging

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