Astronomy: Orbit Terminology

[Hornbein]

The trouble is if you look at the earth from above the north pole then counterclockwise, from above the south pole clockwise. Same with the solar system.

 

[Bandersnatch]

The trouble is if you look at the earth from above the north pole then counterclockwise, from above the south pole clockwise. Same with the solar system.

Yet, the right-hand rule provides an unambiguous direction towards the rotational north pole. This isn't as much of a problem as you make it out to be.

 

[Hornbein]

Yet, the right-hand rule provides an unambiguous direction towards the rotational north pole. This isn't as much of a problem as you make it out to be.

But then all heavenly bodies rotate counterclockwise. Is that useful?