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Ken Muldrew, you wrote:
"The link goes to a webpage that uses a very simple database of geocentric positions to show the current location of the visible planets and the moon (like an orrery that is based on an earth-centered universe). Ten years of data with no optimization whatsoever fits easily into an object embedded in the code."

That's great, Ken, thanks. It reminds me of a feature that used to be found in some older almanacs (Air Almanac, I think) which I have thought about resurrecting in some sort of "ReedNavigation" almanac. Along the margin of each page there was a vertical diagram showing the elongations of the bright planets from the Sun. This worked very much like your clock diagram. The clock is much superior, but the diagram in that old almanac was making good use of excess margin space. :)

In case anyone else has trouble finding the direct link to Ken Muldrew's functioning tool, I am adding a copy here. This is an exact copy from Ken's git page.

Frank Reed

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