The sky on September 10, 1948 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 167.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 260.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 190.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 121.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 214.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 260.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 148.9° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 52% 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]
first quarter, 52% lit; the Moon was 390,271 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
78.1 orbits of the Sun — 73,369 million km, that is 95,433 return trips to the Moon; 28,515 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 566.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.9 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 301 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.2×).
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 September 9, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — September 10, 2041
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,924″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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