The sky on December 21, 1992 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 269.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 239.6° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ☿︎ Mercury — 252.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
- ♀︎ Venus — 314.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♂︎ Mars — 114.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 192.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 315.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 7% 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]
waning crescent, 7% lit; the Moon was 382,883 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
33.8 orbits of the Sun — 31,751 million km, that is 41,299 return trips to the Moon; 12,340 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 245.2 billion km around the Galactic centre, 9.5 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 96 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 2.5×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (64% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 30, 2026; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — December 20, 2029
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,692″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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