Venus and Mercury on the opposite side of solar system

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Both Mercury and Venus are currently passing behind the foreground central Sun moving from right to left or, as seen from Earth, moving from a morning to twilight appearance. As Mercury moves faster, it should overtake Venus as both planets travel out of range of the C3 camera-

https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

https://www.theplanetstoday.com/

How any person who goes to their work today and considers themselves an astronomer by ignoring this new demonstration of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun along with the other planets is hard to imagine?.

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How any person who goes to their work today and considers themselves an astronomer
by ignoring this new demonstration of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun along
with the other planets is hard to imagine?.

1) The Earth goes around the Sun. That is old news.

2) Pluto and Neptune might be on opposite sides of the Solar System, but Venus and
Mercury are always in the middle of the Solar System. (And, thus, on the same side of
Earth's sky as the Sun is on, but I'll have to admit that that's not really the right perspective.)

John Savard

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It is lovely to note that as Venus and Mercury pass behind the Sun on the opposite side of the solar system presently, they appear roughly the same luminosity. As Mercury is closer to the Sun on the far side of our parent star, it is also closer to Earth while Venus is further out from the Sun.

When Venus and Mercury pass in front of the Sun, Venus is very bright despite showing most of its dark hemisphere to us while Mercury is barely discernible against the motion of the background stars from left to right although not quite.

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"But the telescope plainly shows us its horns to be as bounded and distinct as those of the moon, and they are seen to belong to a very large circle, in a ratio almost forty times as great as the same disc when it is beyond the sun, toward the end of its morning appearances.

Sagr; Oh Nicholas Copernicus, what a pleasure it would have been for you to see this part of your system confirmed by so clear an experiment!

Salv; Yes, but how much less would his sublime intellect be celebrated among the learned!. For as I said before, we may see that with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict. I cannot get over my amazement that he was constantly willing to persist in saying that Venus might go around the sun and be more than six times as far from us at one time than at other times as at another, and still look always equal, when it should have appeared forty times larger." Galileo


This type of solar system research has largely vanished from humanity as people are distracted by other things. I am sorry that I didn't find my audience, but not to worry, it is too good to miss even when the satellite has a shelf life before it fails.

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I can't help but notice that these sungrazers seem to come from the same quadrant presently, although that will change as the Earth continues its journey

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I can't help but notice that these sungrazers seem to come from the same quadrant presently, although that will change as the Earth continues its journey

https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/

Within the same period, three sungrazers are still arriving from the same quadrant and I find that remarkable.

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Judging from the frequency of their appearance and that some survive destruction by the Sun, it makes the 1908 Tunguska event entirely plausible from such a source -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

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Both Mercury and Venus are currently passing behind the foreground central Sun moving from right to left or, as seen from Earth, moving from a morning to twilight appearance. As Mercury moves faster, it should overtake Venus as both planets travel out of range of the C3 camera-
https://sol24.net/data/html/SOHO/C3/96H/VIDEO/
https://www.theplanetstoday.com/
How any person who goes to their work today and considers themselves an astronomer by ignoring this new demonstration of the Earth's orbital motion around the Sun along with the other planets is hard to imagine?.

Is that why the interest rates going up?
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