The sky on April 18, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 27.7° · sign Aries · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 101.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 3.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 341.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 319.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 322.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 234.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 36% 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]
first quarter, 36% lit; the Moon was 397,233 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100.5 orbits of the Sun — 94,418 million km, that is 122,813 return trips to the Moon; 36,696 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 729.2 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 218 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.1×).
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 November 11, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — April 18, 2030
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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