The sky on March 17, 1984 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 357.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 178.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 5.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 333.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♂︎ Mars — 236.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 280.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 226.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☽︎ Moon 100% 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]
full moon, 100% lit; the Moon was 357,517 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
42.6 orbits of the Sun — 39,993 million km, that is 52,019 return trips to the Moon; 15,543 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 308.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 11.9 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 128 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.9×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (77% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 21, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — March 17, 2060
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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