The sky on July 22, 1977 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 119.6° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 192.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 141.2° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 77.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 63.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 84.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 137.6° · sign Leo · constellation Leo
- ☽︎ Moon 36% 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, 36% lit; the Moon was 377,890 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
49.2 orbits of the Sun — 46,243 million km, that is 60,149 return trips to the Moon; 17,972 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 357.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13.8 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 257 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, right at the minimum (13% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 3, 2028; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — July 22, 2043
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,448″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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