New Horizons Parallax Program |
New Horizons Parallax Program |
Feb 3 2020, 06:48 PM
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New Horizons is going to be launching a Parallax Program this year - with planned simultaneous observations from Earth and New Horizons of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 on April 22nd and April 23rd.
At New Horizons distance the change in position for those two will be very noticeable - over an arcsecond - and the combined 3-d image should have some noticeable "pop" for those two stars versus other background ones. As always this decade, the latest photo ever taken by New Horizons will be the Farthest Ever Taken. |
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Jun 11 2020, 11:55 PM
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Our parallax program succeeded!
The feature stories on the New Horizons parallax images are live on the NASA and New Horizons mission websites: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-new-hor...llax-experiment http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-A...p?page=20200611 NASA has also tweeted a note about tomorrow’s Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session on the images and the mission latest, 1 pm ET: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1271133599253827590 |
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