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The sky on April 26, 2013 — as it really was

That day the Sun stood in Aries, while the horoscope says "Taurus". The gap is 24.1° of precession.

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☉–♄ 178.1°♀–☽ 178.3° ☿︎20° ♂︎4° ☉︎6° ♀︎13° ♃︎16° ♄︎8° ☽︎15°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 36.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ☽︎ Moon — 225.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 20.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ♀︎ Venus — 43.8° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♂︎ Mars — 34.5° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 76.6° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 218.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ☽︎ Moon 99% 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, 99% lit; the Moon was 363,608 km away.

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

    13.4 orbits of the Sun — 12,635 million km, that is 16,435 return trips to the Moon; 4,911 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 97.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 3.8 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 365 million km away; today it is 244 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, on the rise to maximum (40% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 13, 2028; Jupiter — in 2037; a full moon exactly on this date — April 25, 2032

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

    The vernal point has shifted 648″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 24.1° 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/ap130426.html

    NASA APOD

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