The sky on September 20, 1932 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 177.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 59.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 169.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 131.8° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 119.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 158.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 298.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 73% 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, 73% lit; the Moon was 404,914 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
94 orbits of the Sun — 88,380 million km, that is 114,958 return trips to the Moon; 34,349 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 682.6 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 278 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.1×).
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 October 6, 2026; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — September 20, 2051
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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