The sky on January 16, 1945 — 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 — 296.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 326.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 272.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 342.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 278.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 177.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 95.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 7% 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 crescent, 7% lit; the Moon was 367,930 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.7 orbits of the Sun — 76,797 million km, that is 99,892 return trips to the Moon; 29,847 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 593.1 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 354 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer 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 October 20, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — January 15, 2033
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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