Stellar Parallax

The heliocentric model of the Earth's revolution around the sun predicts a phenomenon called stellar parallax, the apparent shift of position of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant objects. Due to the annual motion of the earth around the Sun, the stars should change position slightly. It has been found that some stars exhibit zero parallax, while other stars exhibit positive or negative parallax of about equal distribution. Stars which exhibit negative parallax travel in a direction contradictory to heliocentrism, and are usually dismissed as "errors".

Negative Parallax
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Historical Quotes
1879 - "Negative parallax renders uncertain all deductions from these observations"

1890 - "Negative parallax ...suggests that there is some unexplained source of error"

1902 - "In the case of the series now under discussion, for example, however and by whomever treated the outcome has always been a large negative parallax of y Draconis, and an aberration-constant impossible to accept."

Further Reference

 * The Tychos Book: Chapter 36 — The Mystery of Negative Stellar Parallax (Archive)