stellar aberration

Related to stellar aberration: Aberration of starlight

stellar aberration

A star’s apparent elliptical course around its true position as Earth orbits the Sun.

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Called stellar aberration, this effect is tens of times larger than the better-known phenomenon of stellar parallax, which gives a clue to distances.

Einstein's dreams

I appreciated Tom Gale's article on ingenious experiments to determine the speed of light, although I thought that the description of Bradley's measurements of stellar aberration raised unnecessary complications.

Light, revisited

But this simplicity doesn't compromise the program's plotting and calculating accuracy, since you can dig a little deeper and find settings for such subtle astronomical effects as nutation, stellar aberration, and light time, as well as the common corrections made for atmospheric refraction and precession.

Sky voyager: one of astronomy's most enduring desktop-planetarium programs keeps getting better with age

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