The sky on May 21, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 298.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 48.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 86.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 133.8° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 198.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 111.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 76% 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, 76% lit; the Moon was 397,899 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.4 orbits of the Sun — 75,533 million km, that is 98,248 return trips to the Moon; 29,356 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 583.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.5 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 243 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1×).
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 April 6, 2027; 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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