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.
- Mercury20 days♑︎ Capricorn 20°11′♑︎ Capricorn 3°57′
- Mars81 days♎︎ Libra 0°14′♍︎ Virgo 11°00′
- Jupiter123 days♎︎ Libra 18°43′♎︎ Libra 8°47′
- Saturn141 days♐︎ Sagittarius 10°19′♐︎ Sagittarius 3°42′
- Mercury24 days♉︎ Taurus 11°11′♉︎ Taurus 1°18′
- Neptune160 days♒︎ Aquarius 12°37′♒︎ Aquarius 9°50′
- Uranus154 days♓︎ Pisces 16°24′♓︎ Pisces 12°29′
- Pluto165 days♈︎ Aries 18°56′♈︎ Aries 16°55′
- Mercury23 days♍︎ Virgo 17°31′♍︎ Virgo 3°45′
- Venus42 days♎︎ Libra 19°59′♎︎ Libra 4°09′
- Mercury20 days♑︎ Capricorn 4°19′♐︎ Sagittarius 18°00′
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: 25 Dec 1838 – 14 Jan; 17 Apr – 11 May; 19 Aug – 11 Sept; 9 Dec – 29 Dec
Venus retrograde: 15 Sept – 27 Oct
Mars retrograde: 31 Jan – 22 Apr
Jupiter retrograde: 2 Feb – 6 Jun
Saturn retrograde: 20 Mar – 8 Aug
Uranus retrograde: 21 Jun – 22 Nov
Neptune retrograde: 15 May – 22 Oct
Pluto retrograde: 19 Jul – 1 Jan 1840
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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