How do you find the parsecs and light-years away a star is from the parallax angle? For example, Sirius has a 0.379s parallax angle. How would you get the parsecs and light-years away?
3-sd approximations: 2.64 parsec = 8.65 ly = 544000 AU..
Regarding your long-term recall:
d=1/1.8374 AU = 544000 AU, thus.
Conversions of units:
From AU units, d = 544000/62000 ly = 8.65 ly in lu units.
From AU units, d=544000/206265 parsec = 2.64 parsec in parsec units.
The 3-sda is used to round all results.
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Distance (in parsecs) = 1 / Parallax angle (in arcseconds) Distance (in light-years) = Distance (in parsecs) * 3.262
For Sirius: Distance (in parsecs) = 1 / 0.379 = 2.64 parsecs Distance (in light-years) = 2.64 * 3.262 = 8.61 light-years
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