Transit of Venus | Intro to Parallax @ResearchFlatMoon

ResearchFlatMoon | Transit of Venus | Intro to Parallax @ResearchFlatMoon | Uploaded July 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The Transit of Venus was first measured by an international team in 1761, with a refined measurement in 1769. Here we go over some of the mathematics involved as we begin our discussion of parallax as a means to measure distance in the universe.

Here is the link to the paper. https://vanderbei.princeton.edu/tex/VenusParallax/ms4a_small.pdf

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