Inactive Tutor answered 05/07/21
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True, Sirius has an annual parallax of 0.376 arc seconds, therefore a distance 1/p = 2.6 parsecs, which is "about 2.5 parsecs".
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asked 05/07/21The true distance to Sirius A (simply called Sirius from here on) is about 2.5 parsecs.
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Inactive Tutor answered 05/07/21
True, Sirius has an annual parallax of 0.376 arc seconds, therefore a distance 1/p = 2.6 parsecs, which is "about 2.5 parsecs".
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