The sky on March 19, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 358.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 260.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 331.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 350.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 290.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 44.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 41.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 57% 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, 57% lit; the Moon was 373,841 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85.5 orbits of the Sun — 80,397 million km, that is 104,575 return trips to the Moon; 31,247 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 620.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 24 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 231 million km away; today it is 244 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 September 25, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,284″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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