The sky on April 16, 1989 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces, while the horoscope says "Aries". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 26.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 156.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 39.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 29.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 82.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 66.5° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♄︎ Saturn — 283.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 82% 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, 82% lit; the Moon was 403,724 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
37.5 orbits of the Sun — 35,217 million km, that is 45,807 return trips to the Moon; 13,687 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 272 billion km around the Galactic centre, 10.5 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 293 million km away; today it is 243 million km (closer by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the rise to maximum (26% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 28, 2026; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — April 15, 2060
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,872″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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