The sky on February 6, 1946 — 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 — 317.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 11.9° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 313.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♀︎ Venus — 318.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 105.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 207.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 109.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 21% 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, 21% lit; the Moon was 372,265 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.7 orbits of the Sun — 75,804 million km, that is 98,601 return trips to the Moon; 29,462 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 585.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.6 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 107 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.3×).
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 23, 2026; Jupiter — in 2029.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,032″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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