The sky on July 21, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 117.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 10.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 99.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 161.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 205.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 223.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 339.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 65% 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, 65% lit; the Moon was 369,154 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91.2 orbits of the Sun — 85,714 million km, that is 111,491 return trips to the Moon; 33,313 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 662 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 171 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1.4×).
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 18, 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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