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    Proper motion is the astrometric measure of the observed changes in the apparent places of stars or other celestial objects in the sky, as seen from the...
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    produced a series of catalogues: L – Luyten, Proper motion stars and White dwarfs Luyten, W. J., Proper Motion Survey with the forty-eight inch Schmidt Telescope...
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    out along the relativistic jets emitted from these objects can have a proper motion that appears greater than the speed of light. All of these sources are...
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    degrees of the south celestial pole. This is due to axial precession and proper motion of Sirius itself which moves slowly in the SSW direction, so it will...
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    those within 10 parsecs. Nearby stars often have a relatively high proper motion, so astrometric binaries will appear to follow a wobbly path across...
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  • a total of 451 proper names of stars. Of the roughly 10,000 stars visible to the naked eye, only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history...
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    2017 revealed that the structure observed by Herschel shows no common proper motion with Zeta Reticuli. In these observations, no significant flux has been...
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    found at previously unsurveyed frequencies of 100 MHz and below. The proper motion of Geminga is 178.2 mas/year which corresponds (at a distance of 250...
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    Alpha Centauri (category Stars with proper names)
    photographic plates taken at different times during a proper motion survey. These showed large proper motion and parallax similar in both size and direction...
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    Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). This motion pattern typically consists of random fluctuations...
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