3 docs tagged with "heliocentric"

Measuring from the centre of the Sun — where the Earth becomes a planet, the Sun and Moon leave the chart, and the bodies show their real orbital positions.

No planet ever reverses. Retrograde motion is what overtaking looks like from a moving platform, and it is absent when positions are measured from the Sun.

The point a direction is measured from, a question that sits underneath every position, and the one the coordinate origin setting answers.