2 all that can be seen from a certain point the perspective from the hotel balcony was dominated by the lake and mountains Synonyms command, lookout, outlook, panorama, view, prospect, vistaRelated Words landscape, scene, scenery; ken, sight; visual field.
The reason for this is that the planets have elliptical orbits and none of them are perfect circles. As an example, the distance between the planet Mercury and Earth can range from 77 million km at the closest point, to as far as 222 million km at the farthest. There is a huge amount of different in the distances between the planets depending on their position on their orbit path. The table below shows the eight planets and the average distance between them. The AU column is the distance in astronomical units. 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth, which is 149,600,000 km.
Mercury passes just 0.5Â° (the diameter of a Full Moon) north of Venus in the early evening sky. From 40Â° north latitude, the two lie less than 4Â° high in the west-northwest 20 minutes after sunset. With a flat horizon and pristine skies, you might just glimpse the pair through binoculars.