The sky on May 21, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 278.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 81.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 100.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 186.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 227.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 339.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 89% 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, 89% lit; the Moon was 374,398 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91.4 orbits of the Sun — 85,871 million km, that is 111,695 return trips to the Moon; 33,374 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 663.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.6 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 112 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 2.2×).
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 July 19, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,572″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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