The sky on April 17, 1927 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 26.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 210.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 360.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 60.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 90.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 350.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 246.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ 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 404,189 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
99.5 orbits of the Sun — 93,482 million km, that is 121,595 return trips to the Moon; 36,332 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 722 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 272 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer 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 December 23, 2026; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — April 16, 2041
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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