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The sky on June 1, 2018 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☿–♂ 119.8°♀–♃ 120.1°♀–☽ 177.8°♃–☽ 57.7° ☿︎5° ☉︎10° ♀︎15° ♃︎15° ♄︎7° ☽︎13° ♂︎5°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 71.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 283.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 65.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♀︎ Venus — 105.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
  • ♂︎ Mars — 305.5° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 225.5° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 277.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 92% 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 gibbous, 92% lit; the Moon was 404,647 km away.

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

    8.3 orbits of the Sun — 7,841 million km, that is 10,199 return trips to the Moon; 3,047 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 60.6 billion km around the Galactic centre, 2.3 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 91 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.7×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 24, on the decline (86% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — June 1, 2053

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

    The vernal point has shifted 396″ 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/ap180601.html

    NASA APOD

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