The sky on March 19, 1986 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 358.6° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 97.5° · sign Cancer · constellation Auriga
- ☿︎ Mercury — 353.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 12.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 265.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 336.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 249.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☽︎ Moon 58% 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]
first quarter, 58% lit; the Moon was 399,939 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
40.5 orbits of the Sun — 38,107 million km, that is 49,567 return trips to the Moon; 14,810 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 294.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 11.4 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 172 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.4×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 21, on the decline (96% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on August 5, 2027; Jupiter — in 2033.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 2,016″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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