The sky on June 21, 2022 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Taurus, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 24.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 90.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Taurus
- ☽︎ Moon — 4.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☿︎ Mercury — 67.8° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♀︎ Venus — 58.2° · sign Taurus · constellation Taurus
- ♂︎ Mars — 20.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 6.5° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♄︎ Saturn — 325.0° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
- ☽︎ Moon 46% 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, 46% lit; the Moon was 384,862 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
4.3 orbits of the Sun — 4,029 million km, that is 5,241 return trips to the Moon; 1,566 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 31.1 billion km around the Galactic centre, 1.2 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 202 million km away; today it is 246 million km (farther by 1.2×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 25, on the rise to maximum (24% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on February 11, 2028; Jupiter — in 2034; a full moon exactly on this date — June 20, 2035
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - 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 - Picture of the day [EXACT]
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for this date: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220621.html
NASA APOD
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