The sky on January 5, 1944 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 284.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 47.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 291.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 242.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♂︎ Mars — 65.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 146.2° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 81.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 77% 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 gibbous, 77% lit; the Moon was 385,653 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
82.7 orbits of the Sun — 77,766 million km, that is 101,153 return trips to the Moon; 30,224 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 600.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.2 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 244 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 October 8, 2026; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — January 4, 2034
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,140″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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