The sky on November 16, 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 — 233.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 295.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 253.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♀︎ Venus — 251.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 328.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 359.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 25.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 27% 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 crescent, 27% lit; the Moon was 397,584 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
86.9 orbits of the Sun — 81,656 million km, that is 106,212 return trips to the Moon; 31,736 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 630.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24.3 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 138 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.8×).
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 April 10, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — November 15, 2035
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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