The sky on April 9, 1969 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 19.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 288.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 20.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 18.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 254.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 178.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 27.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 51% 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]
last quarter, 51% lit; the Moon was 370,329 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
57.5 orbits of the Sun — 54,031 million km, that is 70,279 return trips to the Moon; 20,999 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 417.3 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 114 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 2.1×).
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 (40% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — April 9, 2028
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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