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The sky on October 7, 2008 — as it really was

That day the Sun stood in Virgo, while the horoscope says "Libra". The gap is 24.0° of precession.

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♄–♀ 60.3°♄–♃ 117.9°♄–☽ 119.9°☿–♃ 90.6°☿–☽ 92.7°☉–♃ 89.3°☉–☽ 91.3°♀–♃ 57.6°♀–☽ 59.6° ♄︎16° ☿︎13° ☉︎14° ♂︎2° ♀︎16° ♃︎13° ☽︎15°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 194.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ☽︎ Moon — 285.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 193.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♀︎ Venus — 226.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♂︎ Mars — 212.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 283.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 166.0° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
  • ☽︎ Moon 51% 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]

    first quarter, 51% lit; the Moon was 402,022 km away.

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

    18 orbits of the Sun — 16,909 million km, that is 21,994 return trips to the Moon; 6,572 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 130.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 5 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 372 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, on the decline (99% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 30, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — October 7, 2044

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

    The vernal point has shifted 900″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 24° 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/ap081007.html

    NASA APOD

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