It is hard not to notice the activity of the area around the Sun in 2000 vs the steady condition of the Sun presently.

https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data...current_c3.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L74B98ITKEA&t=271s

From the beginning of May 2000 and seen from the moving Earth there is a spectacular conglomeration of planetary motions while solar activity is also amazing. All it takes are astronomers to become familiar what planet is which by its motion to the Sun and to the Earth by their faster or slower motions and when they move in one direction and then the other as we look towards the inner solar system.

Such is the brilliance of modern technology.