The sky on May 14, 1964 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 53.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 90.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 32.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 93.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 35.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 37.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♄︎ Saturn — 334.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 10% 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]
waxing crescent, 10% lit; the Moon was 361,289 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
62.4 orbits of the Sun — 58,637 million km, that is 76,271 return trips to the Moon; 22,790 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 452.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 17.5 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 350 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 19, on the decline (96% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 25, 2028; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — May 14, 2033
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,132″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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