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The 36 pages that link to Proper motion, each with the reason it gives.

• AstrometryRelated: Repeated astrometric positions reveal this long-term motion across the celestial sphere.

• William HerschelRelated: Herschel compared stellar positions and identified evidence that the Sun moves through space.

• DeclinationRelated: A star's changing position can alter its measured declination over time.

• Equatorial coordinate systemRelated: A star’s position can change even after coordinates are corrected for frame precession.

• AsterismRelated: Over long periods, stellar motion can alter the shapes of asterisms.

• Very Long Baseline ArrayRelated: Repeated VLBA measurements track motions of stars and radio sources.

• Omega CentauriRelated: Measurements of member stars’ motions map the cluster’s internal dynamics and orbit.

• Jan OortRelated: Measured stellar motions helped reveal the Milky Way’s rotation.

• Rogue planetRelated: Tracking motion helps distinguish nearby free-floating objects from distant background sources.

• Ejnar HertzsprungRelated: Hertzsprung used stellar motions to identify groups of stars at related distances.

• SIMBADRelated: Proper-motion values distinguish and characterize nearby moving stars.

• Astronomical coordinate systemsRelated: A coordinate position changes through time both from actual stellar motion and shifting reference axes.

• WISE 0855−0714Related: Its large apparent motion helped identify it as a nearby object.

• Astronomical catalogueRelated: Repeated catalogue positions reveal stellar motion and nearby populations.

• Messier 13Related: Tracking member stars' proper motions helps separate cluster members from foreground stars.

• Andromeda–Milky Way collisionRelated: Andromeda’s sideways motion helps determine whether and how closely the galaxies will pass.

• Double ClusterRelated: Comparing stellar motions helps test whether the two clusters share a dynamical history.

• Galactic astronomyRelated: Combined with distance, it reveals transverse stellar velocities and Galactic orbits.

• Jeans equationsRelated: Proper motions add transverse velocities that can help break dynamical modeling degeneracies.

• Beehive ClusterRelated: Shared proper motions help identify stars that belong to the Beehive.

• Beta CentauriRelated: Its measured motion helps separate true companions from stars that only appear nearby.

• Cygnus LoopRelated: Measured filament motion helps estimate the remnant’s expansion and age.

• Zeta OphiuchiRelated: Its measured motion across the sky helps establish its runaway trajectory.