The sky on January 20, 1932 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 299.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 81.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 277.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 331.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 301.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 140.0° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 296.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 89% 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, 89% lit; the Moon was 389,287 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
94.7 orbits of the Sun — 89,006 million km, that is 115,772 return trips to the Moon; 34,592 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 687.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.5 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 356 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 December 23, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — January 19, 2030
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,752″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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