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for that unit of distance. He proposed the name astron, but mentioned that Carl Charlier had suggested siriometer and Herbert Hall Turner had proposed parsec. It was Turner's proposal that stuck.

Calculating the value of a parsec

By the 2015 definition, of arc length subtends an angle of at the center of the circle of radius . That is, by definition

Converting from degree/minute/second units to

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