Bimodal orrery

[nancylebov]

http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/orrery_2006.swf

Copernican is more practical, Tychonian is prettier.

Link thanks to theweaselking.

Comments

[lethargic_man]

Pretty cool.

Only slight quibble: Seems a shame that the moon phase doesn't reflect the libration in a real lunation as seen from Earth:

Yeah, I know; there's no pleasing some people. ;^)

[nancylebov]

Hey, anything that makes it more fascinating and hypnotic would make it even better.

And Luna probably isn't the only moon which does that.