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edit- Re questions: yes, the earth moving in its orbit creates the apparent motion of the Sun against the stars. The ecliptic plane contains (roughly speaking) the orbits of most of the major planets, including the earth's. (Pluto being the most obvious exception.)
- Something else that you can see by "speeding things up" in a decent astronomy program; the apparent path of the ecliptic in the sky (and hence of the planets "travelling" it) rises beginning on Dec. 22 (winter solstice) and falls beginning on June 22 (summer solstice). It also "rocks" back and forth. I recommend looking at a decent astronomy program (there are some good freeware ones) to see and understand these relationships better. -- Twang Mar 3, 2006
I smell plagiarism, Section "Ecliptic and Sun"
editSee the comment "(as from the list in the previous chapter)" (italics added) from the section on "Ecliptic and Sun."
Either somebody copy-pasted something, or else somebody misnomed a "section" as a "chapter."
Worrisome.
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Motion of the ecliptic
editThe article mentions that the ecliptic isn't fixed, but it now says nothing about which direction it's moving. Easy to remedy that, since Hathitrust has old almanacs online and we can see where the stars were 100+ years ago.
Jc3s5h doesn't like to include that info -- he likes to imagine looking at an 1855 almanac is Original Research or something. Hope the rest of you know better. Take a look at the section he deleted, on the motion of the ecliptic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:680:43D0:C81A:DF5A:5D24:EAE5 (talk) 19:15, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
Astrology
editIf the topic of astrology is to be mentioned in this article, it should be introduced as pseudoscience. Otherwise it is granted unnecessary authority. I would actually argue for moving this section into the main Astrology article, and refrain from discussing Astrology here at all. 84.209.160.5 (talk) 06:21, 6 March 2023 (UTC)