The sky on August 21, 1950 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 147.9° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 249.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 175.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♀︎ Venus — 126.0° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♂︎ Mars — 216.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 333.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 169.5° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 60% 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, 60% lit; the Moon was 370,156 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
76.1 orbits of the Sun — 71,537 million km, that is 93,050 return trips to the Moon; 27,803 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 552.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.3 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 226 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1.1×).
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 October 2, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033; 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 3,816″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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