The sky on November 5, 1939 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.0° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 222.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 144.7° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 245.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 237.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 321.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 359.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 26.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 39% 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, 39% lit; the Moon was 369,416 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
86.9 orbits of the Sun — 81,684 million km, that is 106,249 return trips to the Moon; 31,747 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 630.9 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 126 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.9×).
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 March 30, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — November 4, 2055
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,356″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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