Mercury in the Schultz Diagram
Elemente der Naturwissenschaft
96,
2012,
P.
76-78 |
DOI:
10.18756/edn.96.76
Colloquium | Language: English | Open Access
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Abstract:
Some people are perplexed by the ‘Mercury diagrams’ of Joachim Schultz1. These denote the motion of Mercury over the course of a year, as seen from Earth, with respect to an immobile Sun at the centre. They use the astronomical co-ordinates called Right Ascension and Declination, which means that it is motion with respect to the Equator-plane of the Earth. So these diagrams show Mercury’s apparent motion with respect to the Earth’s equatorial plane. [...]