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.
- Saturn135 days♍︎ Virgo 20°54′♍︎ Virgo 14°00′
- Uranus150 days♏︎ Scorpio 2°19′♎︎ Libra 28°10′
- Pluto156 days♏︎ Scorpio 24°56′♏︎ Scorpio 22°06′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 25°30′♓︎ Pisces 10°41′
- Jupiter123 days♑︎ Capricorn 13°51′♑︎ Capricorn 4°00′
- Neptune160 days♒︎ Aquarius 0°36′♑︎ Capricorn 27°50′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 27°04′♋︎ Cancer 17°56′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 24°29′♏︎ Scorpio 8°46′
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: 29 Feb – 22 Mar; 30 Jun – 24 Jul; 26 Oct – 16 Nov
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 29 Apr – 30 Aug
Saturn retrograde: 31 Dec 2979 – 14 May
Uranus retrograde: 5 Feb – 4 Jul
Neptune retrograde: 1 May – 8 Oct
Pluto retrograde: 26 Feb – 31 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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