The sky on April 24, 1927 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 22.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 33.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 297.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 9.8° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♀︎ Venus — 69.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 94.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 352.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 246.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon 55% 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]
last quarter, 55% lit; the Moon was 379,812 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
99.5 orbits of the Sun — 93,464 million km, that is 121,571 return trips to the Moon; 36,325 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 721.9 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 281 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 30, 2026; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — April 24, 2043
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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