The sky on September 23, 1951 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Virgo — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 179.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon — 93.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Auriga
- ☿︎ Mercury — 164.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 152.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Sextans
- ♂︎ Mars — 142.9° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 10.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 184.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 47% 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]
last quarter, 47% lit; the Moon was 404,206 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
75 orbits of the Sun — 70,519 million km, that is 91,726 return trips to the Moon; 27,407 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 544.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 21 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 348 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.4×).
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 December 17, 2026; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — September 22, 2029
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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