The sky on March 19, 1929 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 358.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 103.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 334.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 35.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 93.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 40.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 270.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 63% 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]
first quarter, 63% lit; the Moon was 370,898 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
97.5 orbits of the Sun — 91,675 million km, that is 119,244 return trips to the Moon; 35,630 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 708 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27.3 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 185 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.3×).
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 January 7, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,896″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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