We have carried out multi-epoch VLBI observations with VERA ( VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry ) of the 22 GHz H _ { 2 } O masers associated with a Class 0 protostar L1448C in the Perseus molecular cloud .
The maser features trace the base of collimated bipolar jet driven by one of the infrared counter parts of L1448C named as L1448C ( N ) or L1448-mm A .
We detected possible evidences for apparent acceleration and precession of the jet according to the three-dimensional velocity structure .
Based on the phase-referencing VLBI astrometry , we have successfully detected an annual parallax of the H _ { 2 } O maser in L1448C to be 4.31 \pm 0.33 milliarcseconds ( mas ) which corresponds to a distance of 232 \pm 18 pc from the Sun .
The present result is in good agreement with that of another H _ { 2 } O maser source NGC 1333 SVS13A in the Perseus molecular cloud , 235 pc .
It is also consistent with the photometric distance , 220 pc .
Thus , the distance to the western part of the Perseus molecular cloud complex would be constrained to be about 235 pc rather than the larger value , 300 pc , previously reported .