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.
- Saturn135 days♉︎ Taurus 10°09′♉︎ Taurus 3°16′
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 6°34′♉︎ Taurus 26°32′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 6°00′♒︎ Aquarius 21°06′
- Neptune160 days♑︎ Capricorn 7°26′♑︎ Capricorn 4°40′
- Uranus154 days♑︎ Capricorn 11°36′♑︎ Capricorn 7°37′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 7°03′♊︎ Gemini 28°00′
- Pluto165 days♈︎ Aries 2°05′♈︎ Aries 0°00′
- Saturn135 days♉︎ Taurus 23°53′♉︎ Taurus 16°58′
- Venus42 days♎︎ Libra 24°38′♎︎ Libra 8°52′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 4°52′♎︎ Libra 19°10′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 11°07′♋︎ Cancer 1°03′
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: 10 Feb – 4 Mar; 11 Jun – 5 Jul; 8 Oct – 29 Oct
Venus retrograde: 19 Sept – 31 Oct
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 25 Sept 1822 – 21 Jan; 29 Oct – 25 Feb 1824
Saturn retrograde: 22 Aug 1822 – 5 Jan; 6 Sept – 19 Jan 1824
Uranus retrograde: 16 Apr – 17 Sept
Neptune retrograde: 9 Apr – 17 Sept
Pluto retrograde: 2 Jul – 15 Dec
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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