I've spent quite a bit of time the last few evenings standing with my head on one side staring at the sky. I was fascinated the other night to see Jupiter and Venus on either side of the moon. Then i realised that the moon is illuminated by the sun and i could work out exactly whereabouts in the sky the sun is even though i couldn't see it. Then using what you know about the location of the sun, the two planets together with the earth you are standing on gives you the plane in which the solar system is. It seems like a plate or frisbee offset at about 45 - 50 degrees to the horizon at around 8pm. Then using the Plough to find the North Star and using the imagined location of the sun to draw a north-south axis through the earth, you can get a real feeling of standing around 3/4 of the way up a huge globe that is spinning around in space as the moon and planets disappear into the west. But if the sun and planets are moving from east to west in the northern hemisphere, that means i myself am spinning around on this globe from west to east or in the direction you would unscrew a bottle top, doesn't it? Or am i confusing myself?