suggest either a total misunderstanding or willful obstinacy!

Consider:

Me: "I'm a Caucasian."
You: "No, you're a vegetarian."

The discussion (observation of apparent movement of stars, planets, etc.) has evolved into an exchange that is equally obtuse by your failing to comprehend the meaning of the English words "relative" and "observable!"

Your retort that all entities in the universe are in constant motion was never denied by me... that response, however, had no bearing on my original statement of fact: it was a total non sequitur!

To paraphrase my original assertion: The stars we observe from earth (or from any other location in the universe you may choose) are so unbelievably distant that to our naked eyes any motions they may individually be executing are virtually undetectable!

The upshot of this is that our naked eyes can detect no apparent relative motion between any two stars you may choose. This fact remains throughout one's lifetime... summer through winter... although with the change of earthly seasons the location in the sky of the chosen stars will change... their relative positions (as observed by us on earth) will appear unchanged!

The only astronomical entities that appear to show relative motion with other stellar objects are: man-made objects, meteors, comets, asteroids, moons, etc... but not the extraordinarily distant stars themselves!

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Now... returning to the superstition: Planets can appear to align with each other and with stars. Some special alignments (planets with other planets; planets with stars) are supposed to portend special earthly or human events... some good, some bad! But all are superstitions!

Also... my comment to Sam2000 was intended to be taken lightly... and not turned into a debate devoid of substance. :(