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The sky on December 15, 1995 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☽–♃ 89.5° ☽︎26° ☉︎23° ♃︎25° ☿︎5° ♂︎11° ♀︎22° ♄︎18°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 263.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 176.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 275.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♀︎ Venus — 292.3° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♂︎ Mars — 281.4° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 265.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 348.5° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 47% 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]

    last quarter, 47% lit; the Moon was 388,948 km away.

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

    30.8 orbits of the Sun — 28,952 million km, that is 37,659 return trips to the Moon; 11,252 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 223.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 8.6 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 346 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.4×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 22, on the decline (94% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — December 15, 2035

    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/ap951215.html

    NASA APOD

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