Cygni, sometimes called Bessels Star (after Friedrich Bessel, who measured the distance from Earth to the star

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Cygni, sometimes called Bessel’s Star (after Friedrich Bessel, who measured the distance from Earth to the star in 1838), is a star in the constellation Cygnus.

(a) 61 Cygni is 11.14 light-years from Earth. If 1 light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles, how many miles is 61 Cygni from Earth?

(b) The mean distance from Earth to the Sun is 93,000,000 miles. What is the parallax of 61 Cygni?

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Precalculus

ISBN: 978-0321716835

9th edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan

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