The sky on February 21, 1980 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Aquarius, while the horoscope says "Pisces". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 332.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 42.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ☿︎ Mercury — 349.8° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 13.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 157.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 155.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 175.3° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 34% 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, 34% lit; the Moon was 371,500 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
46.6 orbits of the Sun — 43,811 million km, that is 56,986 return trips to the Moon; 17,027 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 338.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 13.1 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 102 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the rise to maximum (38% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2027; a full moon exactly on this date — February 20, 2027
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,340″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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