The sky on May 16, 1929 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 55.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 153.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 76.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 22.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 121.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 53.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 269.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 57% 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, 57% lit; the Moon was 378,907 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
97.4 orbits of the Sun — 91,525 million km, that is 119,049 return trips to the Moon; 35,572 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 706.9 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 267 million km away; today it is 244 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 March 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — May 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 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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