Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
DISCLAIMER :
I haven't taken any astronomy classes so i may have come up with some errors in the narration regarding terms and explanation even in this description.
One of the orbital elements is the Argument of Perigee, it's the angle measured from the ascending node (for inclined orbits) to the perigee in the direction of movement. In this video i presume that reference to earth orbit is the plane parallel to the equator and so that gives an inclined orbit of 23.4 and an ascending and descending node, the highest point of that orbit is the winter solstice and from there we can get the perihelion which is around 13 days (~13 degrees) after the highest point which is normally after the ascending node by a 90 degrees and that gives a total of 103 degrees argument of perigee for this simulation
DISCLAIMER :
I haven't taken any astronomy classes so i may have come up with some errors in the narration regarding terms and explanation even in this description.
One of the orbital elements is the Argument of Perigee, it's the angle measured from the ascending node (for inclined orbits) to the perigee in the direction of movement. In this video i presume that reference to earth orbit is the plane parallel to the equator and so that gives an inclined orbit of 23.4 and an ascending and descending node, the highest point of that orbit is the winter solstice and from there we can get the perihelion which is around 13 days (~13 degrees) after the highest point which is normally after the ascending node by a 90 degrees and that gives a total of 103 degrees argument of perigee for this simulation
