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Applications such as Stellarium uses Earth-based equatorial/ecliptic coordinate system methods of pattern prediction, based on the patterns seen on the celestial "dome" above the observer.

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The reader is welcomed to go to this website which describes such Earth-based equatorial coordinate system prediction methods and point out to us where the distance to the sun or the radius or diameter of the earth in RET is expressed.