[HN Gopher] The Patterns of Venus's Movement Across the Sky
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       The Patterns of Venus's Movement Across the Sky
        
       Author : NKosmatos
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-09-15 13:06 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | jihadjihad wrote:
       | One of the cool things about the path of Venus relative to Earth
       | is that the pattern forms a pentagram [0]. Watching an animation
       | [1] of the path reminds me of the Spirograph toy I had as a kid.
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       | 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram#Pentagram_of_Venus
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       | 1: https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-07/ysaLqAf1.gif
        
         | dylan604 wrote:
         | i have never seen this before. now, i want to see it for the
         | earth-moon, or the planets with a 3:2 relationship, or the...,
         | or the....
         | 
         | thanks! i needed a new hobby related rabbit hole of projects
         | for when we have cloudy skies, but still want to do something
         | astro related.
        
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