The sky on July 13, 2026 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Gemini, while the horoscope says "Cancer". The gap is 24.2° of precession.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 111.1° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon — 98.3° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☿︎ Mercury — 110.4° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♀︎ Venus — 154.2° · sign Virgo · constellation Leo
- ♂︎ Mars — 70.4° · sign Gemini · constellation Taurus
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 122.9° · sign Leo · constellation Cancer
- ♄︎ Saturn — 14.6° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon 1% 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]
new moon, 1% lit; the Moon was 359,128 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
0.2 orbits of the Sun — 214 million km, that is 279 return trips to the Moon; 83 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 1.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 0.1 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 309 million km away; today it is 245 million km (closer by 1.3×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - Solar cycle [ESTIMATE]
That day fell in solar cycle 25, on the decline (63% through the cycle).
SILSO smoothed minima - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on May 30, 2028; Jupiter — in 2038.
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 0″ 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/ap260713.html
NASA APOD
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