The sky on January 18, 1927 — 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 — 297.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 123.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 290.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 311.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 44.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 330.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 244.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon 100% 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, 100% lit; the Moon was 395,954 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
99.7 orbits of the Sun — 93,709 million km, that is 121,890 return trips to the Moon; 36,420 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 723.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.9 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 142 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.7×).
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 August 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — January 17, 2060
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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