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Stellar Aberration

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Scientific Paper
TitleStellar Aberration
Author(s)Charles Kenneth Thornhill
Published2006
JournalNone
No. of pages7

Abstract

Stokes (1845) supposed the the Earth drags the local ether along with it, forming what is now recognized as a viscous boundary layer, and solved the problem of stellar aberration by determining how a light wave from a star changes as it crosses this ethereal boundary layer...