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Circular motion about a central point or axis
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What frame(s) of reference are used to measure the rotation of the Sun around the galaxy ?
The Wikipedia page on Sun gives these three velocities,
~220 km/s (orbit around the center of the Galaxy)
~20 km/s (relative to average velocity of other stars in stellar neighbourhood)
~370 km/s(re …