The sky on September 11, 1970 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Leo, while the horoscope says "Virgo". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 168.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon — 293.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 170.9° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 214.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♂︎ Mars — 155.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 214.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 52.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon 78% 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, 78% lit; the Moon was 366,582 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
56.1 orbits of the Sun — 52,694 million km, that is 68,541 return trips to the Moon; 20,480 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 407 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.7 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 393 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, near maximum (52% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 13, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,808″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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