The sky on May 20, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 356.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 75.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 67.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 332.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 58.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 49.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ 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]
waning crescent, 27% lit; the Moon was 401,389 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85.4 orbits of the Sun — 80,237 million km, that is 104,367 return trips to the Moon; 31,184 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 619.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.9 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 160 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.5×).
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 November 26, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; 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 4,284″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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