How Long Would It Take to Get From Babylon to Bethlehem?

The story of the wise men always felt odd to me, even as a christian. We don't believe in astrology. So what does this say? Does god actually communicate through the stars? This kind of stuff is condemned in the bible, like in isaiah forty seven, 13, jeremiah ten two,. but for some reason it's a ok in this story. And so then there was a five b c comet that was spotted by the chinese and he says, well, that doesn't quite work out either. He goes through all these other objects it could be, cause there's a whole cottage industry of people speculating that it was the conjunction of planets or