The sky on July 28, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 124.6° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 64.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 151.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 164.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 106.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 14.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 178.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 25% 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, 25% lit; the Moon was 403,922 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75.2 orbits of the Sun — 70,663 million km, that is 91,914 return trips to the Moon; 27,463 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 545.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21.1 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 376 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
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 21, 2026; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — July 28, 2064
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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