Here is a easy way,

first go to 'Location' menu and select 'Sun', 'Geocentric position', set
latitude and longitude. Press 'OK'.

Press 'Ctrl-F5'.

A window will ask for the offset.

Enter 60au or whatever distance you desire, press 'OK' and voila.

you are now offset from the Sun.

To return, press Ctrl-F5 and delete distance, reset to Earth, latitude
and longitude, geocentric position.

Denis

Mollet-Cornelis wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> lately I've been running into a strange problem. Long ago (could have been Guide 7 or even earlier) I made soms "marks" showing the Solar System from above. I selected the Sun as location, with a latitude of N90° and an altitude of let's say 60 Astronomical Units (or even further away). Then I selected all the planets one by one, and with the animation menu I made them a trail long enough to show a complete orbit around the Sun.
>
> That way, I had a "view from above" of our Solar System. I used this for our astronomy-magazine: every time I loaded this "mark" and simply changed the date to get an up-to-date view. That worked for several years, and is still working flawless.
>
> Now, for a new project, I wanted to have a side-view of the Solar System. So I tried to use the same settings, but changing the latitude to 0 or 10°. And that just doesn't work: altitude automatically falls back tot meters instead of Astronomical Units (which of course makes quit a difference ;-)).
>
> Now, of course I know this is far behind the whole concept of Guide, but it was a nice feature to have for me, so I was wondering if there was some kind of work-around for this? I know one can do this with RedShift for example, but as I'm used to Guide and it's features...
> So basically, I need to have a view from above of the orbits of the planets, minor planets if possible, and maybe some detailed views of let's say the orbits of the Jupiter-moons. Any suggestions??
>
> ths,
> Philippe
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