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The sky on July 22, 1995 — as it really was

That day the Sun stood in Cancer — sign and constellation agree here.

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☽–♂ 117.9°☽–♃ 177.0°☿–♄ 118.2°☉–♂ 61.4° ☽︎2° ♀︎21° ☿︎22° ☉︎29° ♂︎0° ♃︎5° ♄︎24°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 119.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Cancer
  • ☽︎ Moon — 62.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 112.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
  • ♀︎ Venus — 111.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
  • ♂︎ Mars — 180.7° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 245.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 354.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 22% 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.

  1. The Moon that day [EXACT]

    waning crescent, 22% lit; the Moon was 404,789 km away.

    astronomy-engine
  2. How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]

    31.2 orbits of the Sun — 29,326 million km, that is 38,145 return trips to the Moon; 11,397 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 226.5 billion km around the Galactic centre, 8.7 light-days.

    29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre
  3. Mars then and now [EXACT]

    On that day Mars was 269 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.1×).

    astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14
  4. Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]

    That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (90% through the cycle).

    SILSO smoothed minima
  5. When the sky repeats [EXACT]

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 13, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — July 22, 2043

    sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr
  6. How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]

    The vernal point has shifted 1,548″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.8° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.

    precession 50.29″/yr
  7. Picture of the day [EXACT]

    NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap950722.html

    NASA APOD

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