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The sky on April 28, 2020 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ☿–♄ 89.5°☉–☽ 61.2°♀–♂ 118.1° ☿︎1° ☉︎8° ♀︎17° ☽︎9° ♃︎26° ♄︎1° ♂︎19°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 38.7° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ☽︎ Moon — 99.8° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 31.4° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♀︎ Venus — 78.0° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♂︎ Mars — 319.9° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 296.8° · sign Capricorn · constellation Sagittarius
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 301.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ☽︎ Moon 26% 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, 26% lit; the Moon was 388,270 km away.

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

    6.4 orbits of the Sun — 6,052 million km, that is 7,872 return trips to the Moon; 2,352 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 46.7 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 187 million km away; today it is 243 million km (farther by 1.3×).

    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 (4% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 6, 2027; Jupiter — in 2032; a full moon exactly on this date — April 28, 2029

    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/ap200428.html

    NASA APOD

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