The sky on August 17, 1933 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 144.1° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 101.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 125.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 175.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 204.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 175.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 312.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 13% 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 crescent, 13% lit; the Moon was 402,898 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
93.1 orbits of the Sun — 87,526 million km, that is 113,847 return trips to the Moon; 34,017 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 676 billion km around the Galactic centre, 26.1 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 261 million km away; today it is 244 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 September 2, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — August 17, 2027
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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