The sky on May 21, 1930 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 338.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 57.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 85.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 20.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 81.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 281.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 42% 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, 42% lit; the Moon was 401,388 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
96.4 orbits of the Sun — 90,569 million km, that is 117,806 return trips to the Moon; 35,200 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 699.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 27 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 302 million km away; today it is 246 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 March 10, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,824″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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