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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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The page opens in UTC because the server does not know where you are. Pick your own zone and every row is recomputed for it; the choice is remembered.

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

Retrograde periods touching 2002

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Saturn134 days27 Sept 2001 00:04♊︎ Gemini 14°58′8 Feb 2002 01:31♊︎ Gemini 8°01′
Jupiter119 days2 Nov 2001 15:34♋︎ Cancer 15°41′1 Mar 2002 15:14♋︎ Cancer 5°37′
Mercury21 days18 Jan 2002 20:49♒︎ Aquarius 14°29′8 Feb 2002 17:27♑︎ Capricorn 28°37′
Pluto159 days20 Mar 2002 14:53♐︎ Sagittarius 17°37′26 Aug 2002 11:00♐︎ Sagittarius 14°54′
Neptune160 days13 May 2002 12:10♒︎ Aquarius 10°58′20 Oct 2002 13:52♒︎ Aquarius 8°11′
Mercury24 days15 May 2002 18:49♊︎ Gemini 9°59′8 Jun 2002 15:11♊︎ Gemini 1°21′
Uranus154 days3 Jun 2002 00:11♒︎ Aquarius 28°50′4 Nov 2002 06:27♒︎ Aquarius 24°54′
Mercury22 days14 Sept 2002 19:38♎︎ Libra 13°14′6 Oct 2002 19:25♍︎ Virgo 28°19′
Venus42 days10 Oct 2002 18:34♏︎ Scorpio 15°36′21 Nov 2002 07:12♏︎ Scorpio 0°03′
Saturn134 days11 Oct 2002 13:01♊︎ Gemini 29°05′22 Feb 2003 07:40♊︎ Gemini 22°08′
Jupiter121 days4 Dec 2002 12:21♌︎ Leo 18°06′4 Apr 2003 03:03♌︎ Leo 8°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.

The year's retrograde strip

2002

Mercury retrograde: 18 Jan – 8 Feb; 15 May – 8 Jun; 14 Sept – 6 Oct

Venus retrograde: 10 Oct – 21 Nov

Mars: no retrograde period this year

Jupiter retrograde: 2 Nov 2001 – 1 Mar; 4 Dec – 4 Apr 2003

Saturn retrograde: 27 Sept 2001 – 8 Feb; 11 Oct – 22 Feb 2003

Uranus retrograde: 3 Jun – 4 Nov

Neptune retrograde: 13 May – 20 Oct

Pluto retrograde: 20 Mar – 26 Aug

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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