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What is The apparent daily motion of the stars in the sky due to the Earth's?
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All the stars appear to go right round the sky every 23 hours and 56 minutes. But other than that, for example if you look every night at exactly midnight, all the stars go right round once a year.
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As of 2014, he is alive, and turns 31 in April (apparent birthdate April 27, 1983).
Why do stars appear to move across the sky each night while the pattern of stars stays the same?
Every star in the sky has "proper motion", meaning its own motion in some direction, besides the apparent daily motion that's due to the rotation of earth.Why don't we see any effects of this motion ? The answer is very simple, but still mind-boggling.We don't see the effects of a star's proper motion during many human lifetimes because the stars are so far away. Any more than you could see a snail running for all he's worth across the road, 100 miles away.Here are a few examples of the distances involved in space, coupled with the limitations of human perception:-- The nearest natural body to the earth is the moon. Its distance from earth is about [1/4 of a percent] of the distance to the sun ! On an astronomical scale, we can practically reach out and grab the moon. Now, the moon is moving more than 2,000 miles per hour in its orbit. But we can look right at it and never notice that motion ... even though it's the nearest body in the universe to earth.-- Now consider the nearest star to earth (aside from the sun). It's 4.4 light-years away from us ... more than 100 MILLION times as far from us as the moon is, and that's the NEAREST star to us.If that star moved across our line of sight at the SPEED OF LIGHT, it would take 14 days to move the apparent size of the full moon.If it moved across our line of sight at a speed of 1 million miles per hour, it would take almost 26 years to move the apparent size of the full moon.And that's the NEAREST star to us !That's why we don't notice the proper motion of the stars. If anybody is left in several thousand years from now, and if they have our records of how the sky used to look in the 21st Century, then they'll see the results of the motion of the stars. But we see essentially the same sky as the earliest humans who left us any records.
Why do you think there are so few dwarf stars among the twenty with the highest apparent brightness?
Probably because they are the closet to us!
What are the release dates for The Daily Orbit - 2012 Cloudy Brown Dwarf Stars 2-83?
The Daily Orbit - 2012 Cloudy Brown Dwarf Stars 2-83 was released on: USA: 8 January 2013
What the relationship between magnitude and size of the star?
The brightness of a star depends on its temperature, size and distance from the earth. The measure of a star's brightness is called its magnitude. Bright stars are first magnitude stars. Second magnitude stars are dimmer. The larger the magnitude number, the dimmer is the star.The magnitude of stars may be apparent or absolute.
What causes the apparant movement of stars in the sky?
The real motion of stars is hardly noticeable even over a period of many years. It's the Earth's daily rotation the is the main cause of their apparent motion. (Stars are so far away that the Earth's revolution around the Sun hardly cases any apparent motion.)
Why there are seasons and the apparent motion of the stars and sun?
The seasons are due to axial tilts of planets and the apparent motion of stars and sun on the celestial sphere is due to diurnal motion.
What is a stars apparent shift in position?
Motion
Compare the apparent motion of star to the actual motion of stars?
The actual motion of stars is very hard to see because stars are very far away.
When does a planet is said to be in retrograde motion?
A planet is said to be in retrograde motion when its apparent motion - the motion as seen by us, against the background stars - is from east to west.Planets spend more time in prograde motion, from west to east. The apparent movement of Sun and Moon against the background stars is also from west to east. Not to be confused with the daily motion, due to Earth's rotation.
What happens during the apparent retrogate motion of a planet?
When that happens, the planet moves from east to west, from our point of view. This should not be confused with the daily motion of all stars + planets due to Earth's rotation; rather, to the planet's movement against the background of the stars.
The apparent motion of stars is due to movement of?
The rotation of the Earth makes the stars appear to move in the sky.
In what direction is the sun's annual motion relative to the fixed stars?
The Sun's apparent motion among the stars is from West to East - just like the motion of the Moon, and the predominant motion of the planets (planets sometimes go from East to West, too - in this case they are said to be retrograde).
The apparent westward drift of the planet compared to the background stars is occultation?
no its retrograde motion
How does a geocentric model explain the apparent motion of the stars?
All the stars are fixed to a sphere, which rotates once in 24 hours.
The apparent shift in the position of nearby stars when compared to distant stars is?
Doug Fany answer: Parallax
Why did the fact that stars not show any Parallax motion convince the Greeks that the Earth was not moving?
I am not sure whether the ancient Greeks were involved. In any case, any movement of the Earth should be reflected in the apparent motion of distant objects, such as stars.However, in practice, this apparent motion is very small for the stars - the yearly parallax for even the closest stars is less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree).
