The sky on July 28, 1928 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 22.9° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 125.1° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 257.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 107.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 132.6° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 52.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 38.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 252.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 84% 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]
waxing gibbous, 84% lit; the Moon was 402,122 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
98.2 orbits of the Sun — 92,276 million km, that is 120,026 return trips to the Moon; 35,863 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 712.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.5 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 196 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther 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 April 4, 2028; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — July 28, 2064
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,932″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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