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What is a parallax error?

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Parallax, more accurately motion parallax, is the change of angular position of two observations of a single object relative to each other as seen by an observer, caused by the motion of the observer. Simply put, it is the apparent shift of an object against a fixed background that is caused by a change in the observer's position.

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