The sky on February 28, 1945 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 339.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 176.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 339.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 23.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 310.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 174.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 93.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 98% 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]
full moon, 98% lit; the Moon was 404,624 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
81.6 orbits of the Sun — 76,688 million km, that is 99,750 return trips to the Moon; 29,805 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 592.3 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 329 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 December 2, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — February 28, 2040
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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