The sky on November 17, 1944 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 235.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 253.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 250.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 271.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 234.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 173.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 100.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 3% 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]
new moon, 3% lit; the Moon was 390,984 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.9 orbits of the Sun — 76,952 million km, that is 100,093 return trips to the Moon; 29,908 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 594.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.9 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 378 million km away; today it is 244 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 August 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — November 17, 2032
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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