The sky on July 20, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 117.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 234.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 140.5° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 85.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 23.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 325.4° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 229.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 73% 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]
waxing gibbous, 73% lit; the Moon was 384,185 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
100.2 orbits of the Sun — 94,178 million km, that is 122,500 return trips to the Moon; 36,602 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 727.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28.1 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 130 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.9×).
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 February 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — July 20, 2035
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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