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The sky on April 24, 2014 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☿–☽ 59.3°☉–☽ 61.2°♃–♂ 89.2°♄–♀ 119.1° ☿︎2° ☉︎4° ♃︎14° ♂︎13° ♄︎21° ☽︎3° ♀︎20°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 34.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ☽︎ Moon — 333.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 32.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♀︎ Venus — 350.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ♂︎ Mars — 193.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 104.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 231.2° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ☽︎ Moon 26% 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]

    waning crescent, 26% lit; the Moon was 370,356 km away.

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

    12.4 orbits of the Sun — 11,700 million km, that is 15,218 return trips to the Moon; 4,547 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 90.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 3.5 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 94 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.6×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 24, near maximum (49% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 24, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038; a full moon exactly on this date — April 24, 2043

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

    The vernal point has shifted 612″ 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/ap140424.html

    NASA APOD

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