The sky on March 20, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 359.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 290.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 4.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 351.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 154.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 166.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 312.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 32% 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]
last quarter, 32% lit; the Moon was 374,906 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.5 orbits of the Sun — 87,912 million km, that is 114,350 return trips to the Moon; 34,167 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 679 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.2 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 106 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.3×).
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 April 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — March 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 4,680″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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