The sky on December 21, 1994 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Sagittarius — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 269.4° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon — 127.7° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ☿︎ Mercury — 273.5° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ♀︎ Venus — 224.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♂︎ Mars — 151.7° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 242.6° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ♄︎ Saturn — 337.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
- ☽︎ Moon 89% 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, 89% lit; the Moon was 394,545 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
31.8 orbits of the Sun — 29,873 million km, that is 38,856 return trips to the Moon; 11,610 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 230.7 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 138 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1.8×).
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 12, 2026; Jupiter — in 2030; 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 1,584″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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