Limits on the parallax method From Earth, optical telescopes can resolve differences in angle of at best 0.5 arcseconds. With this resolution limit, to what distance can we use trigonometric parallax to measure distances? What if we could measure differences in angle of 0.01 arcseconds? ( Recall that there are 206, 265 arcseconds in a radian.) 5. Limits on the parallax methodFrom Earth, optical telescopes can resolve differences in angle of at best 0.5 arcseconds.With this resolution limit, to what distance can we use trigonometric parallax to measuredistances? What if we could measure differences in angle of 0.01 arcseconds? (Recall thatthere are 206,265 arcseconds in a radian.)

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Limits on the parallax method From Earth, optical telescopes can resolve differences in angle of at best 0.5 arcseconds. With this resolution limit, to what distance can we use trigonometric parallax to measure distances? What if we could measure differences in angle of 0.01 arcseconds? ( Recall that there are 206, 265 arcseconds in a radian.)