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  1. This is a list of high- proper motion stars. There is no specific velocity that is considered high, but the proper motion article notes that the majority of stars have a proper motion of 0.01 arc-seconds per year. Note that the closer a star is to earth, the faster it will appear to travel in arc-seconds per year for a given "real" velocity ...

  2. The Millennium Star Atlas; The Hipparcos-2 Catalogue; The Tycho-2 Catalogue; Education & Images. Images. Stereo Images; Satellite Photographs; Hipparcos H-R Diagrams; High Proper Motion Stars; Variable Stars; Double and Multiple Stars; Hipparcos Result Applications; Solar System Objects; Tools. Search Facility; Common Star Names; Star Mapper ...

  3. Some stars have very significant movements compared to the background stars, and these are referred to as ' high proper motion stars '. Barnard's star (HIP 87937) has the greatest proper motion; the Hipparcos measurements give: proper motion in right ascension = -797.84 mas/yr proper motion in declination = 10326.93 mas/yr giving a total proper ...

  4. Sep 16, 2024 · The PPM database is the Catalog of Positions and Proper Motions. It combines the two catalogs for PPM North and PPM South, the Bright Stars Supplement to PPM, and the 90,000 Stars Supplement to the PPM. The PPM North list gives positions and proper motions of 181731 stars north of -2.5 degrees declination. PPM South gives positions and proper ...

  5. Proper motion. Measure of observed changes in the apparent locations of stars. Relation between proper motion and velocity components of an object. A year ago the object was d units of distance from the Sun, and its light moved in a year by angle μ radian/s. If there has been no distortion by gravitational lensing or otherwise then μ = where ...

  6. Barnard's Star is the star with the highest proper motion. [1] In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space. Stellar kinematics encompasses the measurement of stellar velocities in the Milky Way and its satellites as well as the internal kinematics of more distant ...

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  8. The Sun is in motion, just like other stars. It partakes of the general rotation of the galaxy (the spiral Milky Way). The Milky Way rotates once in about 225 million years, which. 1 corresponds to an average velocity for the Sun of about 220 km s (the Sun covers a distance of about 4 AU in one year because of this motion).