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The sky on December 27, 2016 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♃–♄ 60.2°♃–♀ 121.9°♄–♀ 61.7°☉–♂ 60.0° ♃︎20° ☽︎16° ♄︎20° ☉︎6° ☿︎9° ♀︎22° ♂︎6°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 276.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☽︎ Moon — 256.3° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 279.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♀︎ Venus — 322.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♂︎ Mars — 336.1° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 200.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 260.9° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☽︎ Moon 3% 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]

    new moon, 3% lit; the Moon was 403,645 km away.

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

    9.8 orbits of the Sun — 9,181 million km, that is 11,943 return trips to the Moon; 3,568 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 70.9 billion km around the Galactic centre, 2.7 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 241 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 1×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 24, on the decline (73% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on April 10, 2028; Jupiter — in 2028; a full moon exactly on this date — December 26, 2042

    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/ap161227.html

    NASA APOD

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