The sky on December 1, 1970 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Ophiuchus, while the horoscope says "Sagittarius". The gap is 23.4° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 248.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon — 282.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 267.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 219.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 206.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 231.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 47.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☽︎ Moon 8% 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 crescent, 8% lit; the Moon was 374,109 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
55.8 orbits of the Sun — 52,484 million km, that is 68,268 return trips to the Moon; 20,398 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 405.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 15.6 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 335 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, near maximum (54% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — November 30, 2039
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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