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The sky on June 2, 2016 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♀–♃ 92.9°♀–♄ 178.0°☉–♃ 91.7°☉–♄ 179.2°♃–♄ 89.1° ☽︎5° ☿︎18° ♀︎11° ☉︎12° ♃︎14° ♂︎27° ♄︎13°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 72.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 35.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Cetus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 48.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♀︎ Venus — 71.2° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♂︎ Mars — 238.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 164.1° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 253.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☽︎ Moon 10% 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, 10% lit; the Moon was 361,840 km away.

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

    10.3 orbits of the Sun — 9,717 million km, that is 12,639 return trips to the Moon; 3,776 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 75 billion km around the Galactic centre, 2.9 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 75 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 3.3×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 24, on the decline (68% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on September 15, 2027; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — June 2, 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 504″ 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/ap160602.html

    NASA APOD

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