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♌︎ Leo 4°19′♋︎ Cancer 27°21′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 15°38′♓︎ Pisces 1°18′
- Jupiter123 days♐︎ Sagittarius 15°16′♐︎ Sagittarius 5°25′
- Neptune160 days♑︎ Capricorn 20°35′♑︎ Capricorn 17°48′
- Uranus154 days♒︎ Aquarius 6°24′♒︎ Aquarius 2°27′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 18°35′♋︎ Cancer 8°56′
- Pluto165 days♈︎ Aries 8°34′♈︎ Aries 6°30′
- Mercury20 days♏︎ Scorpio 14°11′♎︎ Libra 28°18′
- Saturn135 days♌︎ Leo 18°10′♌︎ Leo 11°14′
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: 19 Feb – 13 Mar; 22 Jun – 16 Jul; 17 Oct – 7 Nov
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 1 Apr – 2 Aug
Saturn retrograde: 15 Nov 1828 – 29 Mar; 29 Nov – 12 Apr 1830
Uranus retrograde: 11 May – 12 Oct
Neptune retrograde: 22 Apr – 29 Sept
Pluto retrograde: 8 Jul – 21 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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