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Old October 16th 18, 01:33 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default The subculture that obscured genuine astronomy

On Sunday, October 14, 2018 at 1:32:08 PM UTC-7, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

The illusory loops (direct/retrograde motion) of the slower moving planets seen from Earth are distinguished from the actual loops (also direct/retrograde motion) of the faster moving Venus and Mercury closer to the Sun...


Apparently, you are *still* too uneducated to understand that both Mercury and Venus, in fact, *DO* perform illusionary loops WRT the background stars, in addition to the big swoopy loops they make WRT the Sun and the horizon. Take a good look at these...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv-ZPxf07ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtV0PV9MF88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYYwNvjr7Lg

Pretty cool, isn't it?