The sky on November 29, 1950 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Scorpius, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 246.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☽︎ Moon — 120.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 261.8° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 250.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♂︎ Mars — 287.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 329.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 180.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 80% 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 gibbous, 80% lit; the Moon was 399,338 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.9 orbits of the Sun — 71,283 million km, that is 92,720 return trips to the Moon; 27,704 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 550.5 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 295 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 January 10, 2028; Jupiter — in 2033; a full moon exactly on this date — November 28, 2031
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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