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This would be an impossibility if we lived on a spinning and orbiting ball.

Yet here it is. What does that tell you?

Perhaps that we do not live on a spinning and orbiting ball?

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That's exactly what it would look like?
TBIman · 41-45, M
@MrBlueGuy No that is nothing of what it would look like. Think about it, man. A spinning AND ORBITING ball. We only observe one motion. That is of the sky spinning around us.
@TBIman Does the sky spin?
@TBIman Try using Wikipedia. It explains plenty.

A pole star or polar star is a star, preferably bright, nearly aligned with the axis of a rotating astronomical body.

Currently, Earth's pole stars are Polaris (Alpha Ursae Minoris), a bright magnitude-2 star aligned approximately with its northern axis that serves as a pre-eminent star in celestial navigation, and a much dimmer magnitude-5.5 star on its southern axis, Polaris Australis (Sigma Octantis).

From around 1700 BC until just after 300 AD, Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris) and Pherkad (Gamma Ursae Minoris) were twin northern pole stars, though neither was as close to the pole as Polaris is now.