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The sky on September 29, 1995 — as it really was

That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 23.8° of precession.

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☉–☽ 62.1° ☉︎5° ♀︎16° ☿︎17° ♂︎14° ☽︎7° ♃︎10° ♄︎20°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 185.9° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ☽︎ Moon — 248.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 197.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♀︎ Venus — 196.5° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♂︎ Mars — 225.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 250.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 350.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 27% 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]

    waxing crescent, 27% lit; the Moon was 369,621 km away.

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

    31 orbits of the Sun — 29,150 million km, that is 37,916 return trips to the Moon; 11,329 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 225.1 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 320 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.3×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (92% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on September 20, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — September 29, 2042

    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/ap950929.html

    NASA APOD

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