The sky on February 6, 1976 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Capricornus, while the horoscope says "Aquarius". The gap is 23.5° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 316.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon — 26.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 293.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 283.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 76.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 20.0° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 118.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon 32% 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]
first quarter, 32% lit; the Moon was 404,550 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
50.7 orbits of the Sun — 47,612 million km, that is 61,930 return trips to the Moon; 18,504 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 367.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 14.2 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 132 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.9×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 20, on the decline (99% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 18, 2026; Jupiter — in 2035.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,520″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.5° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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