The sky on May 20, 1937 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 186.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 45.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 21.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 238.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 297.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 2.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 80% 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]
waxing gibbous, 80% lit; the Moon was 400,160 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
89.4 orbits of the Sun — 83,998 million km, that is 109,258 return trips to the Moon; 32,646 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 648.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 25 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 77 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3.2×).
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 August 31, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — May 20, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,500″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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