The sky on August 28, 1952 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 155.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 245.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 137.1° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♀︎ Venus — 172.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 240.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 50.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 192.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 50% 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, 50% lit; the Moon was 380,177 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
74.1 orbits of the Sun — 69,641 million km, that is 90,584 return trips to the Moon; 27,066 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 537.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 20.8 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 163 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther 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 November 22, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — August 27, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,708″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.2° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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