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The sky on January 5, 2011 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♄–☉ 87.9°♀–☽ 59.9°♀–♃ 119.2°☽–♃ 59.3° ♄︎16° ♀︎27° ☿︎22° ☉︎14° ♂︎21° ☽︎27° ♃︎27°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 284.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☽︎ Moon — 297.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 262.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ♀︎ Venus — 238.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♂︎ Mars — 291.9° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 357.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 196.8° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ☽︎ Moon 1% 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]

    new moon, 1% lit; the Moon was 394,521 km away.

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

    15.7 orbits of the Sun — 14,798 million km, that is 19,248 return trips to the Moon; 5,751 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 114.3 billion km around the Galactic centre, 4.4 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 356 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 24, right at the minimum (19% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on December 10, 2027; Jupiter — in 2035; a full moon exactly on this date — January 4, 2034

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

    The vernal point has shifted 792″ 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/ap110105.html

    NASA APOD

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