The sky on August 1, 1944 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 129.1° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 268.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 154.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 138.8° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 162.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 151.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 95.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 88% 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, 88% lit; the Moon was 374,925 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
82.2 orbits of the Sun — 77,228 million km, that is 100,452 return trips to the Moon; 30,015 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 596.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 23 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 358 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 May 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — August 1, 2061
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,104″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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