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 15°07′♐︎ Sagittarius 28°50′
- Jupiter123 days♎︎ Libra 23°08′♎︎ Libra 13°12′
- Venus42 days♈︎ Aries 13°08′♓︎ Pisces 26°54′
- Saturn141 days♐︎ Sagittarius 27°47′♐︎ Sagittarius 21°10′
- Mercury24 days♉︎ Taurus 4°50′♈︎ Aries 24°15′
- Pluto161 days♑︎ Capricorn 19°23′♑︎ Capricorn 16°51′
- Neptune159 days♓︎ Pisces 14°15′♓︎ Pisces 11°27′
- Uranus152 days♈︎ Aries 28°31′♈︎ Aries 24°34′
- Mercury23 days♍︎ Virgo 11°38′♌︎ Leo 28°25′
- Mercury20 days♐︎ Sagittarius 29°18′♐︎ Sagittarius 13°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: 19 Dec 2016 – 8 Jan; 9 Apr – 3 May; 13 Aug – 5 Sept; 3 Dec – 23 Dec
Venus retrograde: 4 Mar – 15 Apr
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 6 Feb – 9 Jun
Saturn retrograde: 6 Apr – 25 Aug
Uranus retrograde: 3 Aug – 2 Jan 2018
Neptune retrograde: 16 Jun – 22 Nov
Pluto retrograde: 20 Apr – 28 Sept
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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