The sky on February 29, 1944 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 339.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 53.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 325.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 309.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 77.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 139.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 79.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 36% 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]
first quarter, 36% lit; the Moon was 380,182 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
82.6 orbits of the Sun — 77,626 million km, that is 100,970 return trips to the Moon; 30,169 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 599.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23.1 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 175 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.4×).
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 December 2, 2026; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — February 28, 2029
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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