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Two parallaxes thanks to New Horizons

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On April 23 the New Horizons spacecraft took three images of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359, each. See

pluto.jhuapl.edu/Learn/Get-Involved.php#Parallax-Program

Around that time I took images from my backyard of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 using my 8" Ritchey-Chrétien telescope and ASI1600MM-Pro camera hoping that I would be able to detect the parallax caused by the spatial distance between New Horizons and my backyard. Here are the images of Proxima Centauri taken by New Horizons (left) and me (right):



and I managed to create an animated gif, though I had to darken my image a lot:



Here the same two images for Wolf 359



and another animated gif




Wouter
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