Again I don't see the correlation between brightness and distance of stars. A dull star can be close and a brighter star far away, the brightness won't tell you a thing about distance. Again I call BS on the lot, reason its nowt but guess work.
If we went thru space on a actual elliptical circle then maybe, but from what I gather it's more like a stretched slinky being dragged along by the sun's gravity. In which each 6 months allows us to make use of 186 million miles of diameter, IF it were a perfect circle but it isn't even.
If you've done any of this simple light measurements yourself, I'd be mightly impressed.