The sky on May 18, 1992 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 57.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 259.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 43.0° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♀︎ Venus — 50.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
- ♂︎ Mars — 9.6° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 155.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 318.4° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 96% 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, 96% lit; the Moon was 393,311 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
34.4 orbits of the Sun — 32,313 million km, that is 42,030 return trips to the Moon; 12,558 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 249.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9.6 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 274 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.1×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, near maximum (58% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,728″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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