The sky on May 15, 2014 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 54.6° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 243.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Scorpius
- ☿︎ Mercury — 74.1° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 14.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♂︎ Mars — 189.2° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 107.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♄︎ Saturn — 229.7° · 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.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
full moon, 99% lit; the Moon was 371,780 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
12.4 orbits of the Sun — 11,645 million km, that is 15,148 return trips to the Moon; 4,526 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 89.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 3.5 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 105 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 2.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 24, near maximum (50% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on July 15, 2027; Jupiter — in 2038.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - 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 - Picture of the day [EXACT]
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140515.html
NASA APOD
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