Sirius, the brightest star in the sky has a parallax of 0.379 arcsec What is its distance in parsecs? in light-years?

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Problem 2. Parallax and Distance (Palen, et. al., 2nd Edition,  Chapter 10, problem 43

Sirius, the brightest star in the sky has a parallax of 0.379 arcsec

  1. What is its distance in parsecs?
  2. in light-years?
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