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+For the utmost accuracy and the nearest stars, allowance can
+be made for <I>annual parallax</I> and for the effects of perspective
+on the proper motion.
+<P>
+Parallax is appreciable only for nearby stars; even
+the nearest, Proxima Centauri, is displaced from its average
+position by less than
+an arcsecond as the Earth revolves in its orbit.
+<P>
+For stars with a known parallax, knowledge of the radial velocity
+allows the proper motion to be expressed as an actual space
+motion in 3&nbsp;dimensions. The proper motion is,
+in fact, a snapshot of the transverse component of the
+space motion, and in the case of nearby stars will
+change with time due to perspective.
+<P>
+SLALIB does not provide facilities for handling parallax
+and radial-velocity on their own, but their contribution is
+allowed for in such routines as
+sla_PM,
+sla_MAP
+and
+sla_FK425.
+Catalogue mean
+places do not include the effects of parallax and are therefore
+<I>barycentric</I>; when pointing telescopes <I>etc.</I> it is
+usually most efficient to apply the slowly-changing
+parallax correction to the mean place of the target early on
+and to work with the <I>geocentric</I> mean place. This latter
+approach is implied in Figure&nbsp;1.
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+<I>SLALIB --- Positional Astronomy Library<BR>Starlink User Note 67<BR>P. T. Wallace<BR>12 October 1999<BR>E-mail:ptw@star.rl.ac.uk</I>
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