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The sky on November 11, 2016 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♃–♄ 62.2° ☽︎6° ♃︎13° ☉︎19° ☿︎28° ♄︎15° ♀︎29° ♂︎1°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 229.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ☽︎ Moon — 6.2° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 238.3° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♀︎ Venus — 269.2° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♂︎ Mars — 301.7° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 193.3° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 255.5° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☽︎ Moon 86% 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]

    waxing gibbous, 86% lit; the Moon was 364,723 km away.

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

    9.9 orbits of the Sun — 9,300 million km, that is 12,097 return trips to the Moon; 3,614 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 71.8 billion km around the Galactic centre, 2.8 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 197 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther 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 decline (72% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 24, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — November 11, 2057

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

    The vernal point has shifted 468″ 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/ap161111.html

    NASA APOD

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