The sky on March 15, 1960 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 354.9° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 202.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 346.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 329.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 316.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 271.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 286.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 94% 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, 94% lit; the Moon was 374,346 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
66.6 orbits of the Sun — 62,552 million km, that is 81,363 return trips to the Moon; 24,311 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 483.1 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 307 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, near maximum (57% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — March 15, 2052
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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