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A reader's inquiry regarding impact of continental drift on present longitude.
I am an amateur astronomer. [Because] the stars are moving slowly, the charts of the sky are redrawn each 50 years (called an Epoch). The maps do not really look different, but the associated catalog that precisely lists the position of each star does show the changes.