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Barnard's Star over decades

Started by Exosearch, 01/25/2009 10:20PM
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Jason Higley
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I made this animation using the Palomar DSS surveys taken over many decades of Barnard's star

http://setisociety.org/barnardsstardecades.gif

It's only 6 light years away and as you can see has a very high motion relative to us.

Regards, Jason H.
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A real runaway star to be sure! 8O
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Thanks for posting Jason. Quite a bit of motion there.

Kevin
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