Planet

The solar system in your Palm

Planet : see the 9 planets( Mercure, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) turning around the sun, and the moon moving around the earth.
The planet's location are very precise and are related to the 12 zodiac constellations
Press "Stop" / "Start" to see the planets moving around the sun.
Choose the year, month and day to see the sky map.

Seen from the earth the planets and the sun follow the ecliptic, the ecliptic is represented in the background image by a dotted red circle. As the planet position are related to the vernal point and in absolute coordinate, this means that there is a parallax with the planet position as seen from the earth