You can see how the white star Altair smoothly move relative to other stars during 2 million years. Throughout the video, Altair is in the center of the screen.
A million years ago Altair was visually located near the Scorpio constellation with the red bright star Antares. A million years ago Scorpio looked different.
Altair is currently located in the Aquila constellation.
In about 138 thousand years Altair will pass at a distance of 2.63 parsecs from the Sun and will look like a very bright star of -0.62 magnitude.
One million years later Altair will be near the Orion constellation, which will be greatly distorted during this time.
The video was made using own software. Information about the stars is taken from the Hipparcos catalogue.
The track ‘I Don’t Want To Do This Without You’ by Late Night Feeler sounds in this video.
