Using this method, isopachic fractional fringe orders can be measured with compensator, and the parallax and drift of fringe pattern can be eliminated.
So if you know how far away the nearer one is by measuring its parallax, you just have to compare its brightness to one farther away to get its distance.
They use a distance called the parsec (a contraction of parallax and second), based on a universal measure called the stellar parallax and equivalent to 3.26 light-years.
Scientists hail Gaia's mapping work as crucial to the parallax method, which compares the difference in the direction a star appears to be traveling depending on where on earth it is viewed.
To speak of their doings on this pilgrimage, of ingress and egress, of tangent and parallax, of external and internal contact, would avail nothing. Is it not all written in the chronicles of the Astronomical Society?