This is an animation of 2,000,000 years of proper motion for every naked-eye visible star in the sky (up to apparent magnitude 6.5). The proper motion values come from the ESA Gaia satellite (EDR3 data release.) This doesn't include the effects of Earth's precession (just imagine this same animation, only extremely wobbly -- the Earth completes over 80 full precession cycles in this time). Just the stars' motion across the sky.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia, processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

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