animated orrery showing you both the Copernican and Tychonian viewpoints.

Brian W (Brian) · #1 14-04-2011, 11:22 PM

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

http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-con...rrery_2006.swf

leon · #2 15-04-2011, 09:03 AM

Brian I love it, very well presented.

Leon

renormalised (Carl) · #3 15-04-2011, 10:16 AM

Yep....I can go for that

marki · #4 15-04-2011, 10:31 AM

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

Mark

erick (Eric) · #5 15-04-2011, 10:37 AM

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!

DJDD · #6 15-04-2011, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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!

renormalised (Carl) · #7 15-04-2011, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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!

And it runs into Venus and Mars every now and then!!!!

astroron (Ron) · #8 15-04-2011, 11:36 AM

Can this be downloaded and saved so it can be viewed off line

I use firefox
cheers

Brian W (Brian) · #9 15-04-2011, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroron

Can this be downloaded and saved so it can be viewed off line

I use firefox
cheers

I have no idea

leon · #10 18-04-2011, 10:47 PM

Now Ron I wondered about that as well.

leon