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.
- Saturn137 days♎︎ Libra 9°47′♎︎ Libra 2°59′
- Jupiter123 days♎︎ Libra 10°23′♎︎ Libra 0°26′
- Pluto156 days♎︎ Libra 24°20′♎︎ Libra 21°32′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 4°55′♒︎ Aquarius 19°50′
- Uranus152 days♐︎ Sagittarius 0°06′♏︎ Scorpio 26°03′
- Neptune160 days♐︎ Sagittarius 24°51′♐︎ Sagittarius 22°05′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 5°12′♊︎ Gemini 26°20′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 3°51′♎︎ Libra 18°15′
- Venus41 days♒︎ Aquarius 8°54′♑︎ Capricorn 23°21′
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: 8 Feb – 2 Mar; 9 Jun – 3 Jul; 6 Oct – 27 Oct
Venus retrograde: 31 Dec – 10 Feb 1982
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 24 Jan – 27 May
Saturn retrograde: 18 Jan – 5 Jun
Uranus retrograde: 5 Mar – 4 Aug
Neptune retrograde: 27 Mar – 3 Sept
Pluto retrograde: 26 Jan – 1 Jul
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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