On the contrary, if the parallax angle is too small, it can't be measured accurately.
no, they're 90 degrees or less. a way to remember is aCUTE angle. a small angle is sorta cute right?
It depends on your definition of small and large. Obtuse angles are ones that are more than 90 degrees and acute angles are less than 90 degrees. If you forgive the bad graphics.. Obtuse: \_ Acute: /_
You can use cups to measure a small can of juice.
An antimeter is a modification of the quadrant for measuring small angles.
The parallax angle of such distant objects is way too small to be measured. In general, the farther away an object, the smaller is its parallax angle.
they couldn't measure small angles
The farther the object, the smaller its parallax. In this case, the parallax is about 1/300,000 of an arc-second (and an arc-second is 1/3600 of a degree) - way too small to measure. Perhaps you will eventually find a way to measure smaller parallax angles.
Pressumably, they didn't have the high-precision devices required to measure those angles. You must consider that we are talking about extremely small angles - even the closest star has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree).
At larger distance, the parallax becomes smaller, and therefore harder to measure. Even the closest star (Toliman) has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree), which is difficult to measure. Stars that are farther away have a much smaller parallax.
It means that the distance is greater than a certain amount - depending on how precisely you can measure the parallax.
A parallax is hard to measure if it is very small - and this happens when the corresponding object is very far away.
At larger distance, the parallax becomes smaller, and therefore harder to measure. Even the closest star (Toliman) has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree), which is difficult to measure. Stars that are farther away have a much smaller parallax.
Did you ever sit in the passenger seat and look at the fuel gauge on the dash? You see the gauge from the side so it appears that the needle is pointing to Empty. The driver is looking straight at it so the driver sees the actual reading to be a quarter of a tank. That was a parallax error that your observation position created.
It means that the distance is greater than a certain amount - depending on how precisely you can measure the parallax.
At farther distances, the parallax becomes too small to measure accurately. At a distance of 1 parsec, a star would have a parallax of 1 second (1/3600 of a degree). (The closest star, Toliman, is a little farther than that.) At a distance of 100 parsecs, the parallax is only 1/100 of a second.
The answer is: yes, just about, maybe. Astronomers had catalogued over 2 million stars with parallax values. However many of the values are estimates and some of the angles are very small.