What's the sun's motion, prograde or retrograde?
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Well I am not sure if it is proper to apply the term to the sun, but the sun's apparent motion against the background of fixed stars is always in the same direction as that of planets that are moving in the prograde direction.
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On average the sun moves about 1 degree against the background stars per day (that's about 2 full moons!).  Since the Earth is on an elliptical orbit, we actually speed up and slow down, so it changes from day to day the exact amount.  \n\nIf you mean how many degrees above or along your local horizon, you need to give me your latitude and longitude to answer that.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
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Earth and all the planets in out solar system are orbiting our Sun. The Sun and all stars are moving in space, but those other stars are not moving around US; they are orbiting the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Because the stars are so far away from us it takes thousands of years before they have moved far enough for us to notice it from so far away, but astronomers have made careful measurements with telescopes and can detect small position changes, which they call "proper motion". I googled "proper motion" and below is the first result.
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No.  The sun is one of the stars. The earth and the other planets move around the star we call our sun.
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The correct option is 'rotation of the earth'. When earth revolves, some part of it is directly facing the sun, and the other part is not. That explains the presence of day in one part of the world, and night in the other.
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yes it goes around the sun.\n\nBut the sun orbit in the universe means that we orbit alot more suns although it would take billions billion years to do so.
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Mercury doesn't really show retrograde motion.  What happens is that it rises so far up into the sky and then begins to drop.  During conjunctions, it will then switch from being an evening star to a morning star or vice versa.  Venus does the same thing.  They do this because their orbits are inside the earth's orbit.  Mars would be the closest planet to show retrograde motion.
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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Because of the earths rotation on it's axis the sun appears to travel left to right across the sky in the Northern hemisphere. It is merely an illusion, for all intents and purposes as the earth goes round the sun, we can say that the sun is stationary for the purpose of this question.
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According to astrologists, Mercury in Retrograde is a time to slow down and reflect on recent events/happenings.  They also say do not sign contracts during this time or make any huge decisions while Mercury is in Retrograde and  that problems with technical tools will arise.
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Obviously  it appears to rise in the east and set in the west. A little trick to try from anywhere in the world....\nPick a spot you can stand at the same time as often as you can , the same time everyday.  Pick a landmark and make a note where the sun seems to rise in relation to this landmark.  You will be able to track the travel as the sun moves north to south and back again as it rises in the morning.  Email me for more info on this
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Yeah, gravity.  That's what slings everything around.  The enormous mass of the sun gives it an incredible gravitational pull.
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The Sun is rotating aroun the centre of the Milky Way and heading in the direction of Alpha Hercules at the speed of 150 miles a second.\n\nMakes Roger Bannister's sub-4-minute mile look rather slow doesn't it?
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towards the moon or towards the sun?\n\nand i think its centripetal force. (or however you spell it)\ngood luck.
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The Earth orbits the sun in an ellipse.\n\nEvery ellipse has two foci. It is at these two points where the orbited body is normally located.\n\nPlease see the wiki source that has further information on how to get the numerical data if you need it.
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1) The Sun would look slightly larger because the "surface" you are seeing is not the photosphere (which emits mostly visible light) but is the corona, which is hotter and thus emits higher-energy light.\n\n2) Solid objects cannot exhibit differential rotation, only liquid and gaseous objects can.