The sky on May 29, 1998 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 23.8° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 67.9° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 116.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 54.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 29.4° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 63.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 354.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 28.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 17% 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]
waxing crescent, 17% lit; the Moon was 381,991 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
28.4 orbits of the Sun — 26,645 million km, that is 34,658 return trips to the Moon; 10,356 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 - 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 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 23, right at the minimum (15% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 2, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — May 29, 2037
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - 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 - Picture of the day [EXACT]
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap980529.html
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