The sky on November 19, 1959 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Libra, while the horoscope says "Scorpio". The gap is 23.3° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 236.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon — 100.9° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 247.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 190.0° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 230.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 249.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 274.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 86% 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, 86% lit; the Moon was 404,401 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
66.9 orbits of the Sun — 62,853 million km, that is 81,755 return trips to the Moon; 24,428 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 485.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 18.7 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 380 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, near maximum (54% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on August 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — November 18, 2040
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,348″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.3° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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