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🪐 Planetary Retrograde Loops: Kepler Orbits, Synodic Periods and the Sky Track Seen from Earth

Real Keplerian orbits of Earth and five planets carry you around the Sun while a second view shows the sky as Earth sees it. Watch Mars, Jupiter or Venus slow, stop and loop backwards against the stars, then scan decades to measure retrograde durations and synodic periods against the formulas.

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Real Keplerian orbits of Earth and five planets carry you around the Sun while a second view shows the sky as Earth sees it. Watch Mars, Jupiter or Venus slow, stop and loop backwards against the stars, then scan decades to measure retrograde durations and synodic periods against the formulas.

Retrograde MotionKepler OrbitsSynodic PeriodEcliptic LongitudeThree.jsBlender

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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