Simplification of stellar parallax

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  Simplified approach

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  Example

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  How it works ( pt2 )

Inspiration

It always fascinated me how astronomers calculate the distance between stars which are lightyears away from our planet earth hence i stumbled across Stellar Parallax, It's a process to measure the distance between celestial bodies by the apparent shift of position against background. There are many approaches to this process but almost all approaches defer in accuracy, in fact many approaches make it overly packed with unnecessary calculation making it overly complicated.

What it does

A simplified approach developing a standard form to find distance after getting Tanθ and Tanφ ( the slopes )

How I built it

Using trigonometry formulas

Challenges I ran into

Thinking of a simplified general form was very tricky as I had to research through many approaches

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Developing a simplified general form

What I learned

This surely exposed me to new opportunities on how implement and construct new equations

What's next for Simplification of stellar parallax

• [X] Creating a simplified general form
• [ ] Making a python program to automate the process

Built With

• gitbook
• maths
• trigonometry