The sky on December 27, 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 — 275.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 69.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 265.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 319.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 263.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 177.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 97.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 95% 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, 95% lit; the Moon was 374,894 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.8 orbits of the Sun — 76,849 million km, that is 99,959 return trips to the Moon; 29,867 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 593.5 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 364 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 September 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — December 26, 2042
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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