What information about orbital inclination can we get from visual binaries, spectroscopic binaries, and eclipsing binaries?
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Astronomers can find the inclination of a visual binary system because they can see the shape of the orbits. In a spectroscopic binary system, however, the individual stars are not visible, so the orbits can't be mapped and the inclination can't be found. In eclipsing binary systems the inclination is edge-on.
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