The sky on May 16, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 55.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 324.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 41.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 61.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 157.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 163.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 316.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 51% 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, 51% lit; the Moon was 380,133 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.4 orbits of the Sun — 87,765 million km, that is 114,159 return trips to the Moon; 34,110 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 677.8 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 162 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther 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 June 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — May 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 4,680″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 22.9° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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