The sky on January 5, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 284.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 251.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 276.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 297.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 316.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 335.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 182.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 8% 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, 8% lit; the Moon was 360,560 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.8 orbits of the Sun — 71,189 million km, that is 92,597 return trips to the Moon; 27,668 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 549.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.2 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 316 million km away; today it is 244 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 February 16, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — January 4, 2034
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,780″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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