animated orrery showing you both the Copernican and Tychonian viewpoints.

[Brian W]

The following link comes from another group I monitor and is well worth taking a look at.
Brian

http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/orrery_2006.swf

[leon]

Brian I love it, very well presented.

Leon

[renormalised]

Yep....I can go for that:):)

[marki]

Thanks for the link Brian, very useful indeed and I will use it when my students cover astronomy next.

Mark

[erick]

No wonder I'm a twisted man. Look at those gas and ice giants pulling at me from one side when I was born! And the Moon was nearly full! :D

[DJDD]

:lol:

[renormalised]

And it runs into Venus and Mars every now and then!!!!:):P

[astroron]

Can this be downloaded and saved so it can be viewed off line :question:
I use firefox
cheers

[Brian W]

I have no idea:shrug:

[leon]

Now Ron I wondered about that as well.

leon