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Stellar Parallax
...he outcome has always been a large negative parallax of y Draconis, and an aberration-constant impossible to accept."] ([https://web.archive.org/web/2022010

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Airy's Failure
...st proposed by Ruggiero Boscovich for testing James Bradley's heliocentric aberration idea of 1728. This, in turn, was thought up to explain the elliptical

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Leo Ferrari
:{{cite|Despite its aberrant and oppositional spirit, FES appeared within an identifiable cultural co

12 KB (1,844 words) - 04:19, 1 December 2022
NOAA Solar Calculator
...ic'' longitude of the Sun (that is, calculated by including the effects of aberration and nutation) is a multiple of 90 degrees. (Because the latitude of th

16 KB (2,612 words) - 17:23, 15 October 2022
Sagnac Experiment
in an optical medium, stellar aberration) motion of the source and motion of the observer

25 KB (3,874 words) - 18:28, 3 February 2024
Assorted Quotations
{{cite2|The observation of the aberration show us, therefore, not the movement of the earth, but the variation o

72 KB (11,717 words) - 10:15, 1 September 2023