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The sky on December 1, 2019 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♂–♀ 58.8°♂–☽ 90.1°☿–♄ 58.7°☉–☽ 59.2° ♂︎8° ☿︎19° ☉︎8° ♃︎29° ♀︎6° ♄︎18° ☽︎8°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 249.0° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Ophiuchus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 308.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 229.4° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♀︎ Venus — 276.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♂︎ Mars — 218.0° · sign Scorpio · constellation Libra
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 269.7° · sign Sagittarius · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 288.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 25% 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 crescent, 25% lit; the Moon was 395,986 km away.

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

    6.8 orbits of the Sun — 6,433 million km, that is 8,368 return trips to the Moon; 2,500 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 49.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 1.9 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 357 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.5×).

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

    That day fell in solar cycle 25, right at the minimum (0% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on June 10, 2027; Jupiter — in 2031; a full moon exactly on this date — November 30, 2039

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

    The vernal point has shifted 324″ 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/ap191201.html

    NASA APOD

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