A handbook of double stars, with a catalogue of twelve hundred double stars and extensive lists of measures. With additional notes bringing the measures up to 1879 (1879)
142 DOUBLE STARS. Now let C be the place of the star as viewed from the sun, … no parallax, C the position of the star when the time is t, and the longitude of the earth is L ; then C o- C is the change in the angle of position due to parallax. Then we have, R being the radius factor of the earth at the time t, X the constant of parallax for the star at the earth's mean…