Thread: Hipparcos Limit ?
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Old 12-10-2009, 01:50 PM
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After thought ...
If your talking about the distance of a star at the limit that Hipparcos can measure parallax (precision 1 milliarcsecond at best) then this corresponds to a distance of 1/0.001=1000 pc or roughly 3260 ly.

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