Editing Orrery (section)

==In popular culture==
* The construction system [[Meccano]] is a popular tool for constructing highly accurate orreries. Model 391, the first Meccano Orrery, was described in the June 1918 Meccano Manual.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.meccanoindex.co.uk/Mmanuals/Mmodels.php?page=2&Smotor=&Tsearch=&Soutfit=&Sdate=&M_era=16&Srow=37&Edate=&id=1493837531|title=Analysis of Meccano Manuals - Manual Models Listings|website=www.meccanoindex.co.uk}}</ref><ref name="Meccano">{{Cite journal |last=Whiting |first=Michael |date=2007 |title=Orrery Developments:The Use of Meccano in Constructing Planetaria |url=http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/94/meccano.pdf |journal=Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society |issue=94 |pages=26–30 |citeseerx=10.1.1.694.9199 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221065757/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/94/meccano.pdf |archive-date=21 December 2014 |access-date=2017-05-03}}</ref>
* In ''[[Dune Messiah]]'', the 1969 [[sequel]] to ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'', there is a description of a desktop orrery representing the two moons of the fictional planet [[Arrakis]] and its sun.
* In the backstory of the 1982 film ''[[The Dark Crystal]]'', the UrSkek TekTih made a giant automatic orrery, with the help of his fellow UrSkek ShodYod, for Aughra, in the mountaintop observatory where she lives.
* In the [[Tarzan (1999 film)|1999 version of Tarzan]], the [[Tarzan|title character]] studies an orrery with planets on it.
* In the 2000 science fiction film ''[[Pitch Black (film)|Pitch Black]]'', an orrery was used to demonstrate a pending [[eclipse]] of the planet.
*In the 2020 historical novel ''A Room Made of Leaves'' by [[Kate Grenville]], a makeshift orrery is made from scraps found in the early colony of [[New South Wales]] by its first astronomer, [[William Dawes (British Marines officer)|William Dawes]].