The sky on July 20, 1932 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 117.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 330.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 144.4° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 88.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Orion
- ♂︎ Mars — 79.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 145.4° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 301.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 92% 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]
waning gibbous, 92% lit; the Moon was 387,054 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
94.2 orbits of the Sun — 88,537 million km, that is 115,163 return trips to the Moon; 34,410 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 683.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.4 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 322 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.3×).
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 June 22, 2028; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — July 20, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,716″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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