The sky on March 18, 1969 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 357.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 1.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 339.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 26.8° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 248.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 181.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 24.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 0% 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]
new moon, 0% lit; the Moon was 380,593 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
57.6 orbits of the Sun — 54,086 million km, that is 70,352 return trips to the Moon; 21,021 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 417.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 16.1 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 143 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.7×).
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 (39% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 8, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; 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 2,880″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.4° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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