The sky on October 24, 1945 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 210.7° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 76.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 224.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 186.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 113.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 192.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 114.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 85% 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]
waning gibbous, 85% lit; the Moon was 364,613 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.9 orbits of the Sun — 76,075 million km, that is 98,953 return trips to the Moon; 29,567 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 587.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.7 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 157 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther 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 July 27, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — October 24, 2037
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,068″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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