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The sky on February 22, 2024 — as it really was

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

РЫБЫОВЕНТЕЛЕЦБЛИЗНЕЦЫРАКЛЕВДЕВАВЕСЫСКОРПИОНЗМЕЕНОСЕЦСТРЕЛЕЦКОЗЕРОГВОДОЛЕЙ ♈︎♉︎♊︎♋︎♌︎♍︎♎︎♏︎♐︎♑︎♒︎♓︎ ♃–☽ 91.2°♃–♂ 93.0°♃–♀ 92.9°♃–♄ 61.1° ♃︎10° ☽︎11° ♂︎7° ♀︎7° ☿︎28° ☉︎3° ♄︎8°

Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)

  • ☉︎ Sun — 333.4° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☽︎ Moon — 131.3° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
  • ☿︎ Mercury — 328.6° · sign Aquarius · constellation Aquarius
  • ♀︎ Venus — 307.2° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♂︎ Mars — 307.1° · sign Aquarius · constellation Capricornus
  • ♃︎ Jupiter — 40.1° · sign Taurus · constellation Aries
  • ♄︎ Saturn — 339.0° · sign Pisces · constellation Aquarius
  • ☽︎ Moon 96% 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]

    full moon, 96% lit; the Moon was 403,228 km away.

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

    2.6 orbits of the Sun — 2,462 million km, that is 3,202 return trips to the Moon; 957 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 19 billion km around the Galactic centre, 0.7 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 335 million km away; today it is 244 million km (closer by 1.4×).

    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 (40% through the cycle).

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

    Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on November 27, 2027; Jupiter — in 2036; a full moon exactly on this date — February 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 108″ 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/ap240222.html

    NASA APOD

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