The sky on July 24, 1939 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 120.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 223.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 143.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 108.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 299.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 8.7° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 30.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 61% 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]
first quarter, 61% lit; the Moon was 383,709 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
87.2 orbits of the Sun — 81,951 million km, that is 106,596 return trips to the Moon; 31,851 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 632.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24.4 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 58 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 4.2×).
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 December 17, 2027; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — July 24, 2040
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,392″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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