The sky on March 20, 1942 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 359.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 39.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 334.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 315.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 67.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 74.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 54.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 12% 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, 12% lit; the Moon was 399,784 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
84.5 orbits of the Sun — 79,457 million km, that is 103,352 return trips to the Moon; 30,881 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 613.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.7 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 250 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 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 November 8, 2026; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — March 19, 2030
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,248″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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