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The sky on May 27, 1998 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♀–☽ 61.7°♄–☽ 60.2° ♀︎27° ♄︎28° ☿︎20° ♂︎2° ☉︎6° ☽︎28° ♃︎24°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 66.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 88.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Orion
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 50.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♀︎ Venus — 27.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ♂︎ Mars — 62.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 354.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 28.7° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ☽︎ Moon 4% 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, 4% lit; the Moon was 370,914 km away.

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

    28.4 orbits of the Sun — 26,651 million km, that is 34,665 return trips to the Moon; 10,358 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 205.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 7.9 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 375 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.5×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 23, right at the minimum (15% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 30, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — May 27, 2059

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

    The vernal point has shifted 1,404″ 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/ap980527.html

    NASA APOD

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