Retrograde tracker
Which planet is retrograde right now, at what degree, and when it turns direct. Station dates with times. No account.
Turns retrograde: the planet starts to appear to move backwards. Turns direct: it moves forwards again. All times are in UTC.
- Saturn134 days♊︎ Gemini 27°54′♊︎ Gemini 20°56′
- Uranus149 days♍︎ Virgo 12°46′♍︎ Virgo 8°37′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 0°42′♒︎ Aquarius 15°34′
- Neptune159 days♏︎ Scorpio 10°43′♏︎ Scorpio 7°56′
- Pluto164 days♓︎ Pisces 0°29′♒︎ Aquarius 28°13′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 0°40′♊︎ Gemini 21°51′
- Jupiter118 days♈︎ Aries 19°50′♈︎ Aries 9°52′
- Mercury21 days♎︎ Libra 29°38′♎︎ Libra 14°04′
- Saturn134 days♋︎ Cancer 12°06′♋︎ Cancer 5°09′
- Uranus150 days♍︎ Virgo 17°33′♍︎ Virgo 13°24′
Retrograde motion is apparent, not actual: as Earth overtakes a planet in its faster orbit, the planet appears to move backwards against the stars for a while. This page states dates, times and degrees, and nothing else. A station date says nothing about anyone's week, and it is not pretended otherwise here.
Mercury retrograde: 3 Feb – 25 Feb; 4 Jun – 28 Jun; 1 Oct – 22 Oct
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 8 Aug – 4 Dec
Saturn retrograde: 9 Oct 1796 – 20 Feb; 23 Oct – 6 Mar 1798
Uranus retrograde: 17 Dec 1796 – 15 May; 22 Dec – 20 May 1798
Neptune retrograde: 10 Feb – 19 Jul
Pluto retrograde: 30 May – 11 Nov
One row per body. The thin line is the year's course; the thick coloured band marks the days it ran retrograde. Dates are UTC.
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