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To: SunkenCiv
You aren't going to see it zooming across the heavens. Wiki says "the 10.3 arcseconds it travels in a year amount to a quarter of a degree in a human lifetime, roughly half the angular diameter of the full Moon."

You'll have to keep a close eye on it to see it move.

6 posted on 11/03/2024 7:35:42 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“President Trump sells out Madison Square Garden -- Kamala sells out America”)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
You'll have to keep a close eye on it to see it move.

"Keep a close eye" only in the figurative sense: Bernar's Star has an apparent visual magnitude of +9.5. It would thus have to be about 25 times brighter to be just barely visible to the unaided eye.

Regards,

14 posted on 11/03/2024 11:23:01 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Barnard’s Star has the largest proper motion observed yet.


15 posted on 11/03/2024 11:51:51 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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