The sky on December 21, 1930 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 268.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 285.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 289.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 233.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 136.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 107.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 282.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 2% 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]
new moon, 2% lit; the Moon was 396,016 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
95.8 orbits of the Sun — 90,019 million km, that is 117,090 return trips to the Moon; 34,986 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 695.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.8 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 117 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 2.1×).
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 November 23, 2026; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — December 20, 2029
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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