The sky on September 20, 1935 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 176.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 97.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 202.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 158.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ♂︎ Mars — 242.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 230.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 335.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 41% 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, 41% lit; the Moon was 392,635 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
91 orbits of the Sun — 85,562 million km, that is 111,293 return trips to the Moon; 33,254 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 660.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25.5 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 225 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther 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 November 18, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — September 20, 2051
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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