The sky on March 18, 1966 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 357.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 317.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 3.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 312.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 6.9° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 82.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 350.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 12% 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 crescent, 12% lit; the Moon was 406,093 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
60.6 orbits of the Sun — 56,905 million km, that is 74,018 return trips to the Moon; 22,116 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 439.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 17 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 356 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, right at the minimum (13% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 11, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — March 17, 2041
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 3,024″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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