The sky on May 21, 1983 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 59.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 174.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 47.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 103.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 63.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 246.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 209.0° · 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]
waxing gibbous, 71% lit; the Moon was 375,136 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
43.4 orbits of the Sun — 40,761 million km, that is 53,019 return trips to the Moon; 15,842 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 314.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 12.2 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 377 million km away; today it is 246 million km (closer by 1.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (69% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 11, 2028; Jupiter — in 2030.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,160″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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