The sky on May 21, 1967 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 207.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 71.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 102.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 195.1° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 119.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 9.2° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☽︎ Moon 92% 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 gibbous, 92% lit; the Moon was 361,674 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
59.4 orbits of the Sun — 55,798 million km, that is 72,578 return trips to the Moon; 21,686 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 430.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.6 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 101 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the rise to maximum (23% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 28, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,988″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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