The sky on February 16, 1932 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 326.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 76.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 318.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 4.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 323.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 136.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 299.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 67% 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, 67% lit; the Moon was 393,824 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
94.6 orbits of the Sun — 88,937 million km, that is 115,683 return trips to the Moon; 34,566 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 686.9 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 354 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 January 19, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — February 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 4,752″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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