The sky on August 21, 1949 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 148.1° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 112.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 169.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 181.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 109.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 293.6° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 158.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 10% 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 crescent, 10% lit; the Moon was 375,308 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
77.1 orbits of the Sun — 72,476 million km, that is 94,271 return trips to the Moon; 28,168 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 559.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.6 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 331 million km away; today it is 246 million km (closer 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 August 19, 2028; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — August 21, 2032
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,852″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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