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BenYoung84
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Нельзя "at the South", я верю, но можно "a star" если она - неконкретна и никто ранее не упоминало о ней.
With verbs of perception (seeing, tasting, hearing, feeling, smelling), the continuous present sounds awkward unless there's a reason to emphasize the continuing nature of the the thing being perceived and the speaker wants to make the perception more vivid. It sounds even worse in most questions, and to me it sounds wrong here without context and certain vocal intonation.