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.
- Saturn134 days♊︎ Gemini 27°31′♊︎ Gemini 20°35′
- Jupiter118 days♋︎ Cancer 6°31′♊︎ Gemini 26°28′
- Uranus149 days♎︎ Libra 3°30′♍︎ Virgo 29°21′
- Pluto156 days♏︎ Scorpio 9°18′♏︎ Scorpio 6°29′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 15°57′♓︎ Pisces 0°40′
- Neptune160 days♑︎ Capricorn 17°29′♑︎ Capricorn 14°43′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 15°26′♋︎ Cancer 6°44′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 15°06′♎︎ Libra 29°37′
- Venus42 days♏︎ Scorpio 24°06′♏︎ Scorpio 8°26′
- Saturn134 days♋︎ Cancer 11°29′♋︎ Cancer 4°33′
- Jupiter119 days♌︎ Leo 10°27′♌︎ Leo 0°23′
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 Feb – 12 Mar; 19 Jun – 13 Jul; 17 Oct – 7 Nov
Venus retrograde: 18 Oct – 29 Nov
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 24 Oct 2973 – 19 Feb; 27 Nov – 26 Mar 2975
Saturn retrograde: 9 Oct 2973 – 20 Feb; 23 Oct – 6 Mar 2975
Uranus retrograde: 7 Jan – 5 Jun
Neptune retrograde: 18 Apr – 25 Sept
Pluto retrograde: 10 Feb – 16 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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