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List of stars from 'On the parallax of the fixed stars'

John Herschel1826

The Royal Society

The Royal Society
London, United Kingdom

This list of stars locates various stellar objects at different times, following a new method proposed by John Herschel in the paper. Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant objects.
This paper was published in the journal of the Royal Society, the Philosophical Transactions, volume 116.

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