As the final post for this chapter, we’ll examine the equation of anomaly for angles measured from perigee in the epicyclic model. Again, we’ll start with a basic diagram for the epicyclic model and this time, we’ll drop a perpendicular onto $\overline{DA}$ from H to form $\overline{HK}$.
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