The sky on April 20, 1950 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aries — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 29.8° · sign Aries · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon — 64.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 49.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 343.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 173.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 330.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 163.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 9% 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, 9% lit; the Moon was 405,343 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
76.5 orbits of the Sun — 71,858 million km, that is 93,468 return trips to the Moon; 27,928 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 555 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.4 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 106 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 June 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033.
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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