Thread: Estelle's Star
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Old 20-06-2010, 01:20 PM
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The trigonometric parallax for Estelle's star (HD 111363) is given here as 1.5 mas (milli-arcseconds) ...
http://vizier.hia.nrc.ca/viz-bin/Viz...&recno=2334886

This would put its distance as 1/0.0015 pc (parsecs) ~ 667 pc.
Also equates to 667 x 3.26 ~ 2200 light years.

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