The sky on December 26, 1983 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius, while the horoscope says "Capricorn". The gap is 23.6° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 274.1° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 180.4° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 284.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 233.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 201.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 264.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 223.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 53% 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]
last quarter, 53% lit; the Moon was 371,603 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
42.8 orbits of the Sun — 40,202 million km, that is 52,291 return trips to the Moon; 15,624 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 310.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 12 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 250 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (74% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 31, 2027; 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 2,124″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.6° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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