https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
The faster-moving Mercury is presently passing between the slower-moving Earth and our parent star at the centre of all planetary motions.
Aside from all the other features explained previously like luminosity and size differences as the planet runs back and forth around the Sun, another one is the speed at which the planet passes from left to right (retrograde motion) compared to right to
left (direct motion) as seen from the C3 camera free from daily rotational influences.
When I look out my window and watch a car move from left to right across the frame of the window, it moves rapidly from one side to the other. This would represent a planet in retrograde motion as an analogy.
A car in the distance travelling in the opposite direction away in the distance crosses the frame of the window much slower as the distance across the window frame is much larger for that further distance. This represents Venus and Mercury in direct
motion, again, as an analogy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2uCtot1aDg
This is for those with integrity who have a love of their solar system neighbourhood and can easily interpret what is in front of them with all the technological advances that 21st-century imaging allows.
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