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To: kristinn

Great photo.

Does it streak across the sky, or does it appear as in your photo just hovering stationary?


24 posted on 07/17/2020 12:18:06 PM PDT by chrisser
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To: chrisser

Still.................


26 posted on 07/17/2020 12:22:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'..........................)
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To: chrisser

It will look to be relatively stationary. Not like a shooting star.


33 posted on 07/17/2020 12:36:52 PM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing America's youth on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: chrisser
Does it streak across the sky, or does it appear as in your photo just hovering stationary?

It makes a small motion against the background stars every day which you probably couldn't see unless you had a telescope rotating with the sky. Just like the stars, moon and planets it moves around the North Star during the night.

According to Wikipedia on the day of its closest approach in 1996 "Hyakutake was moving so rapidly across the night sky that its movement could be detected against the stars in just a few minutes; it covered the diameter of a full moon (half a degree) every 30 minutes."

50 posted on 07/17/2020 2:02:54 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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