In FE, stars are rotating around Polaris (or north celestial pole) on circular orbits.
Don't ask me how far they are, because all answers that I saw made no sense vs observations.
so they circle in a similar manner to how the sun does in the FE model? so are they also much closer to the earth then? and smaller too?
any FEs want to chime in on this too?
In FE model we have Dome above us, Sun and Moon are all the time
some 3000 miles above the ground, and the Dome is above them.
Stars are small, glued to the Dome. Dome rotates, and stars with it. Several "wandering stars"
(planets, their moons, asteroids, commets...) are flying around off their leash.
Some weird optics shows Sun, Moon and Stars at the places where they are not,
so they all look like "setting" or "rising" when are too far from observer.
That is because of properties of light itself.
Celestial light emitted from celestial bodies curves, because of boomerang-photons.
When celestial light hits something (say, pocket mirror) it is not curved any more,
because boomerang-photons get squished and lose ability to curve.
I just don't understand how are those boomerang-photons, before get squished,
so well trained to fly in formation, instead of getting scattered all over the place.
(If you fire coins from shotgun, they do get scattered beyond any aiming.)