Good, don't stop. These are simply marvelous! [Added: We'll make sure someone gets food to you. ]

Here is the JPL orbital plot and data which shows much. Using their 3d view, it appears the Earth is in a position that would minimize the apparent positions of both the inward and outward "puffs". [Earth's orbital direction is reducing our view of it, but we are in a position to see it, of course.]

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.