when the sun goes into retrograde?

Question

What does that mean?

Answer 1

The sun does not go into retrograde.

Retrograde is the apparent motion of planets in the night sky. It is when the planets APPEAR to be moving backwards in their orbits. What is actually happening is that the earth is catching up to the slower moving outer planets.

A good analogy is to think of overtaking (catching up to) and passing a car on a four lane highway. Both cars are going in the same direction, but if you are in the faster car, then the slower car APPEARS to be going backwards (from your perspective) as you pass it. That car was in retrograde motion with respect to you.

The same thing happens when the earth catches up with Mars (which orbits more slowly). When the earth comes around the sun and gets closer and closer to Mars, it appears as if Mars is moving backwards against the background of stars. That is it's retrograde motion.

Since we never catch up with and pass the sun, because we are orbiting around it, it does not have retrograde motion.

Answer 2

Neither the Sun nor the Moon EVER go in retrograde motion. This applies equally to astronomy AND astrology (in case that was where you were coming from). All the planets that we see do show retrograde motion from time to time, but it is apparent, not actual motion due to the movement of our own Earth overtaking the motion of the other planet.

Aside to pragjnesh_reddy, you've been answering "I DON'T KNOW" to almost every question I've seen you answer. This is obviously a cheap attempt to get points for nothing and it is totally bogus. If you don't have an answer, then DON'T reply.

Answer 3

to tell u the truth i dont belive the sun goes in retrograde i know planets do. but remeber the sun is in the center of our solar system and we can only see the sun in the dayligth so there is no other objects to compare and see it go on retrograde. i hope it make sense i am kinda using comon sense ia m not certain

Answer 4

two months from now were doomed!