The sky on December 20, 1994 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 268.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 115.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 272.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 224.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 151.6° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 242.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 337.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 94% 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 gibbous, 94% lit; the Moon was 397,660 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.8 orbits of the Sun — 29,880 million km, that is 38,866 return trips to the Moon; 11,613 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 230.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 8.9 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 140 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.7×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (84% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 11, 2026; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — December 20, 2048
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 1,584″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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