68 years of proper motion stars in the ARP299 area

This video (best viewed on a monitor or TV in 1440p full screen) shows the proper motion stars in the ARP299 area over a 68 years period. It’s made out of a capture of ARP299 from 1953, taken by the 48“ Schmidt telescope at the Mount Palomar Observatory, USA, and a capture of my own taken in 2021 with my Meade LX200 8“ telescope here in Haarlem, the Netherlands. There are at least 30 proper motion stars and they are moving in between ARP299 and Earth. The video starts with a wide view with the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) and then zooms in to the area. The zoom images are screenshots made with Stellaruim. ARP299 contains a coliding pair of galaxies indicated with NGC 3690. This is here in the center of the video. NGC 3690 is at roughly 156 million lightyears distance from Earth. This whole area has a lot of very distant galaxies and quasars in it. In my capture over at , the most distant galaxy visible is at 5.8 billion lightyears and the most distant quasar visible is at 11.4 billion lightyears. The capture is in negative to show it better. Credits and download Mount Palomar capture: