The sky on February 13, 1945 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 324.4° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 335.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 312.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 10.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 299.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 175.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 94.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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, 1% lit; the Moon was 362,429 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.6 orbits of the Sun — 76,722 million km, that is 99,795 return trips to the Moon; 29,818 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 592.6 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 338 million km away; today it is 245 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 November 17, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — February 13, 2044
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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