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The sky on May 22, 2022 — as it really was

That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Gemini". The gap is 24.2° of precession.

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♃–☿ 58.2°♃–☉ 59.2°♀–♄ 57.8°☿–☽ 92.5°☿–♂ 62.2° ♃︎2° ♀︎22° ☿︎0° ☉︎1° ♄︎25° ☽︎27° ♂︎28°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 61.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ☽︎ Moon — 327.8° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 60.3° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
  • ♀︎ Venus — 22.9° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ♂︎ Mars — 358.2° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 2.1° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 325.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ☽︎ Moon 53% 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]

    last quarter, 53% lit; the Moon was 375,112 km away.

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

    4.4 orbits of the Sun — 4,110 million km, that is 5,346 return trips to the Moon; 1,597 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 31.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 1.2 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 226 million km away; today it is 244 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, on the rise to maximum (24% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 12, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — May 22, 2035

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

    The vernal point has shifted 216″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 24.2° 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/ap220522.html

    NASA APOD

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