Stellar relative velocities are only tens of km/s which are << c. Most naked 
eye stars are only within a few thousand light years.

If you corrected to "now" I think the sky would look pretty much the same. 
Einstein might take an issue with defining "now" being particularly useful


- Karl


On 05/03/2013, at 4:17 PM, Ashish Mahabal <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The proper motions of most stars are too small to matter. More importantly, 
> we do not know what the values are for most stars. That incidentally is 
> likely to change soon as Gaia gets launched later this year and will measure 
> positions of a billion stars much more precisely than ever before over a five 
> year period through multiple observations.
> http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Gaia_overview
> 
> There are lists of what are called High proper Motion (HPM) stars available 
> [see the two stars in the box here, for instance: 
> http://nesssi.cacr.caltech.edu/catalina/20130302/1303021210274114807.html - 
> one of them is/has HPM].
> Information is also available about some "streams" within our Galaxy. 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> ashish
> 
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:45 PM, MARK BAKER wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The light that we see from the stars in the sky is not there real position
>> I was wondering has any one done any work to calculate there
>> true positions in our time and put it into some kind of graph ...
>> 
>> 
>> -Mark 
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