The sky on August 21, 1927 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 147.4° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 78.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 135.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 175.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 167.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 2.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 241.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 32% 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, 32% lit; the Moon was 378,771 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
99.1 orbits of the Sun — 93,153 million km, that is 121,166 return trips to the Moon; 36,204 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 719.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.8 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 384 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.6×).
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 April 28, 2027; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — August 21, 2032
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,968″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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