The sky on August 14, 1941 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 141.3° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 45.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 136.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 172.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 20.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 76.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 57.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 56% 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, 56% lit; the Moon was 404,141 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
85.1 orbits of the Sun — 80,016 million km, that is 104,079 return trips to the Moon; 31,098 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 618 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 83 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 3×).
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 February 20, 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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