The sky on August 10, 1982 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 137.5° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 22.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 153.4° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 115.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 214.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 213.1° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 197.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☽︎ Moon 71% 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, 71% lit; the Moon was 382,370 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
44.2 orbits of the Sun — 41,493 million km, that is 53,971 return trips to the Moon; 16,126 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 320.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 12.4 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 202 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (61% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 1, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,196″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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