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%.