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Message Subject Calling All Amateur Astronomers! How far away are stars? How do we determine this distance? What makes it reliable?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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I am mostly concerned about how do we determine this distance and what makes it reliable.

Not just some random answers.

I am not entirely concerned about going to any Stars either.
 Quoting: SaveTheLivingEntities



form a triangle from the star to two opposite points on the earth's path around the sun

we know the distance from one side of orbit to the other and the angles in the triangle, enough to get the length of the two other sides

simple geometry bro
 
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