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The sky on October 29, 2012 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☽–♄ 180.0°♃–♂ 179.2°♀–☿ 59.0° ☽︎2° ♃︎15° ♀︎1° ♄︎2° ☉︎6° ☿︎0° ♂︎16°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 216.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
  • ☽︎ Moon — 32.9° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 240.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
  • ♀︎ Venus — 181.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♂︎ Mars — 256.1° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 75.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 212.8° · sign Scorpio · constellation Virgo
  • ☽︎ Moon 100% 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]

    full moon, 100% lit; the Moon was 402,585 km away.

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

    13.9 orbits of the Sun — 13,092 million km, that is 17,029 return trips to the Moon; 5,088 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 101.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 3.9 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 306 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.2×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 24, on the rise to maximum (36% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 16, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — October 28, 2042

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

    The vernal point has shifted 684″ 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/ap121029.html

    NASA APOD

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