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The sky on March 26, 2020 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☽–♂ 92.2°☽–♄ 88.9°♀–♃ 118.6° ☉︎6° ☽︎29° ♀︎22° ♃︎23° ♂︎26° ♄︎0° ☿︎8°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 6.3° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ☽︎ Moon — 29.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 338.7° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ♀︎ Venus — 52.3° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♂︎ Mars — 297.0° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 293.7° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 300.3° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ☽︎ Moon 4% 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, 4% lit; the Moon was 405,510 km away.

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

    6.5 orbits of the Sun — 6,137 million km, that is 7,982 return trips to the Moon; 2,385 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 47.4 billion km around the Galactic centre, 1.8 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 225 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.1×).

    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 (3% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on October 4, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — March 25, 2043

    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/ap200326.html

    NASA APOD

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