  This article describes a parallax experiment performed by undergraduate
physics students at Queensland University of Technology. The experiment is
analogous to the parallax method used in astronomy to measure distances to the
local stars. The result of one of these experiments is presented in this paper.
A target was photographed using a digital camera at five distances between 3
and 8 metres from two vantage points spaced 0.6 m apart. The parallax distances
were compared with the actual distance measured using a tape measure and the
average error was 0.5 +/- 0.9%.
