The sky on November 23, 1947 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Scorpius, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 240.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon — 359.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 220.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♀︎ Venus — 261.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 147.0° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 246.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 142.6° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 74% 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 gibbous, 74% lit; the Moon was 392,271 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
78.9 orbits of the Sun — 74,120 million km, that is 96,410 return trips to the Moon; 28,807 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 572.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.1 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 183 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.3×).
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 November 21, 2026; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — November 22, 2037
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,960″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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