"Gospel Quest" (or The Jesus Timeline)

[Undeceived]

9 After they had heard the king, they went on their way, and the star they had seen when it rose went ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was.

Whatever blithering moron wrote this nonsense thought of stars as lights in the sky - not what we now know stars to be. Unless the explanation is that they were right and modern science is wrong!

You can read the website's explanation. I won't go into great detail here, as the topic has its own thread. Basically, in 3BC the conjunction would have appeared to be in the west, when viewed from the Middle East. And as the months of travel pass, it would have appeared to be overhead when they arrive. We know what the constellations looked like. Check out the evidence for yourself, but let's stay on topic here.