The 'theplanetstoday 'website is so much easier to interpret the relative positions of the planets to the central Sun, so objections to it as an astrological website never mattered to me. Other websites are just as good but more cluttered for the purpose
of interpretation-
https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem?objs=12p|c2023h2|c2023p1&date=2023-10-31&h=10&m=37&
https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
There is immense satisfaction, as would be expected, in the ability to join the original perspective of the slower-moving planets in terms of direct/retrograde motions with the new perspective of the faster-moving planets seen from Earth, something the
original heliostatic astronomers could not do.
"Now what is said here of Jupiter is to be understood of Saturn and Mars also. In Saturn, these retrogressions are somewhat more frequent than in Jupiter, because its motion is slower than Jupiter's, so the Earth overtakes it in a shorter time. In Mars,
they are rarer, its motion being faster than that of Jupiter, so that the Earth spends more time catching up with it. Next, as to Venus and Mercury, whose circles are included within that of the Earth, stoppings and retrograde motions appear in them also,
due not to any motion that really exists in them, but to the annual motion of the Earth." Galileo
This is an astronomy forum, indeed.
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