The sky on May 21, 1943 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 261.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 62.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 101.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 355.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 112.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 73.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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]
full moon, 96% lit; the Moon was 365,382 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
83.4 orbits of the Sun — 78,353 million km, that is 101,916 return trips to the Moon; 30,452 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 605.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.4 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 223 million km away; today it is 245 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 January 9, 2028; Jupiter — in 2038.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,176″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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