The sky on June 8, 2018 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 24.1° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 77.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 7.8° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ☿︎ Mercury — 80.7° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 113.7° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♂︎ Mars — 307.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 224.9° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
- ♄︎ Saturn — 277.2° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
- ☽︎ Moon 33% 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]
last quarter, 33% lit; the Moon was 387,226 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
8.3 orbits of the Sun — 7,823 million km, that is 10,175 return trips to the Moon; 3,040 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 60.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 2.3 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 84 million km away; today it is 245 million km (farther by 2.9×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 24, on the decline (87% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 3, 2027; Jupiter — in 2030; a full moon exactly on this date — June 8, 2047
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - 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 - Picture of the day [EXACT]
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180608.html
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