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The 15 degrees comes from the Earth's rotation, right? Not sure what you're trying to compare here. If I spin in a circle at 1 second per revolution, I guess I
by chkaloon 7y ago
The 15 degrees comes from the Earth's rotation, right? Not sure what you're trying to compare here. If I spin in a circle at 1 second per revolution, I guess I can make the sun travel about 2.2 billion miles per hour using your numbers.
- shantly 7y ago> any notion of a bullet star flinging across the sky like tracers at the Knob Creek night shoot. It's fast yet, but at that scale, doesn't look it. That would appear to be what the poster is trying to compare, there.
- jcims 7y agoBingo
- jcims 7y agoYeah just trying to connect how this would look visually if this star were to fly across the night sky like a comet.