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Retrograde tracker

Which planet is retrograde right now, at what degree, and when it turns direct. Station dates with times. No account.

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Turns retrograde: the planet starts to appear to move backwards. Turns direct: it moves forwards again. All times are in UTC.

Retrograde periods touching 1949

11 · UTC · 5 Oct 2026

Uranus150 days6 Oct 1948 09:50♋︎ Cancer 0°34′5 Mar 1949 04:08♊︎ Gemini 26°30′
Pluto160 days17 Nov 1948 20:13♌︎ Leo 16°33′26 Apr 1949 14:03♌︎ Leo 14°08′
Saturn135 days17 Dec 1948 00:20♍︎ Virgo 6°12′1 May 1949 08:34♌︎ Leo 29°18′
Neptune158 days16 Jan 1949 09:37♎︎ Libra 15°10′23 Jun 1949 20:46♎︎ Libra 12°23′
Mercury21 days24 Jan 1949 20:17♒︎ Aquarius 20°12′14 Feb 1949 23:44♒︎ Aquarius 4°33′
Jupiter121 days20 May 1949 15:33♒︎ Aquarius 2°10′18 Sept 1949 18:47♑︎ Capricorn 22°20′
Mercury24 days23 May 1949 02:16♊︎ Gemini 17°12′16 Jun 1949 00:08♊︎ Gemini 8°39′
Mercury22 days21 Sept 1949 03:49♎︎ Libra 19°07′12 Oct 1949 19:44♎︎ Libra 3°56′
Uranus150 days11 Oct 1949 05:13♋︎ Cancer 5°01′9 Mar 1950 19:24♋︎ Cancer 0°56′
Pluto160 days19 Nov 1949 18:15♌︎ Leo 18°11′28 Apr 1950 08:38♌︎ Leo 15°46′
Saturn136 days30 Dec 1949 04:03♍︎ Virgo 19°26′15 May 1950 09:22♍︎ Virgo 12°34′

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.

The year's retrograde strip

1949

Mercury retrograde: 24 Jan – 14 Feb; 23 May – 16 Jun; 21 Sept – 12 Oct

Venus: no retrograde period this year

Mars: no retrograde period this year

Jupiter retrograde: 20 May – 18 Sept

Saturn retrograde: 17 Dec 1948 – 1 May; 30 Dec – 15 May 1950

Uranus retrograde: 6 Oct 1948 – 5 Mar; 11 Oct – 9 Mar 1950

Neptune retrograde: 16 Jan – 23 Jun

Pluto retrograde: 17 Nov 1948 – 26 Apr; 19 Nov – 28 Apr 1950

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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