The sky on July 21, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 118.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 85.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 98.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 143.1° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 10.4° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 72.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 56.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 8% 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, 8% lit; the Moon was 397,880 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85.2 orbits of the Sun — 80,074 million km, that is 104,155 return trips to the Moon; 31,121 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 618.4 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 101 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.4×).
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 January 27, 2028; 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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