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Old 05-July-2009, 12:01 PM
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The celestial sphere is approximately flat at the scale of annual stellar proper motions.

But Right Ascension doesn't convert directly to degrees (it's like longitude and miles). Vega is about 40 N, so (I think) RA would need a factor of around 3/4.

(Not that I have a clue how the proper motions of Canopus and Vega relate to precession.)
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