The sky on January 3, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 282.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 150.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 260.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 322.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 244.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 299.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 233.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 84% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
waning gibbous, 84% lit; the Moon was 405,358 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100.8 orbits of the Sun — 94,687 million km, that is 123,163 return trips to the Moon; 36,800 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 731.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28.2 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 332 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 29, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — January 3, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 5,040″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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