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This is an initial, lo-res rendering for a project to depict the correct motion of the Solar System round the centre of the Galaxy. This animation depicts the five inner most planets along with the Sun. The size of the Sun and the five planets is only representational and they are not to scale. The size of the orbits of the planets is to scale. The orbital velocities of the planets are to scale as well, although this not the same scale as the orbital radii. The forty seconds time for the animation is equivalent to 13 years on Earth. Earth is in blue and Mars is visible in red. The orbit of Jupiter is rather larger than the inner planets. The stars in the background are a simple space texture and are not representative of the positions of the stars themselves and are purely there to provide a sense of the movement of the camera. The purpose of this video is to depict the movement of the planets as they orbit the Sun, as the Sun itself orbits the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy once every 240 million years at a speed of 230 km per second. The video depicts the planets' orbits at an angle relative to the motion of the Sun, although at present this seems to be an angle of 30 degrees whilst it should be 60. This video is based on information in an article by astronomer Phil Plait here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astron... (all errors are down to me!) Hope to complete this by adding the rest of the planets and correcting the angle of the Solar System relative to the motion of the Sun. If possible I would like to add in the angle of inclination of the different planets' orbits as well, although it maybe that this won't make any practical difference.