The sky on December 17, 1926 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Ophiuchus, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 264.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon — 62.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 244.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 271.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 35.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 323.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 241.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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]
full moon, 96% lit; the Moon was 376,878 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
99.8 orbits of the Sun — 93,793 million km, that is 122,000 return trips to the Moon; 36,453 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 724.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 28 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 101 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 2.4×).
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 11, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — December 16, 2032
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 5,004″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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