The sky on July 29, 1990 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Cancer, while the horoscope says "Leo". The gap is 23.7° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 126.1° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☽︎ Moon — 215.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 150.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♀︎ Venus — 101.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 41.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 115.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 290.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 49% 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, 49% lit; the Moon was 402,332 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
36.2 orbits of the Sun — 34,006 million km, that is 44,232 return trips to the Moon; 13,216 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 262.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 10.1 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 155 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1.6×).
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 (39% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on March 11, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — July 28, 2045
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,800″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.7° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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