The sky on March 15, 1982 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 354.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 240.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 332.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 309.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 195.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 219.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 200.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 70% 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]
waning gibbous, 70% lit; the Moon was 402,338 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
44.6 orbits of the Sun — 41,874 million km, that is 54,467 return trips to the Moon; 16,274 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 323.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 12.5 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, near maximum (57% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — March 15, 2052
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,232″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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