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.
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 5°56′♉︎ Taurus 25°53′
- Mars81 days♍︎ Virgo 11°07′♌︎ Leo 21°41′
- Pluto157 days♏︎ Scorpio 2°05′♎︎ Libra 29°16′
- Venus42 days♈︎ Aries 20°14′♈︎ Aries 3°52′
- Neptune160 days♐︎ Sagittarius 27°26′♐︎ Sagittarius 24°40′
- Mercury24 days♈︎ Aries 27°34′♈︎ Aries 17°03′
- Uranus154 days♑︎ Capricorn 23°43′♑︎ Capricorn 19°45′
- Saturn141 days♒︎ Aquarius 8°30′♒︎ Aquarius 1°51′
- Mercury23 days♍︎ Virgo 4°16′♌︎ Leo 21°00′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 10°06′♋︎ Cancer 0°02′
- Mercury20 days♐︎ Sagittarius 21°54′♐︎ Sagittarius 5°36′
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: 25 Mar – 17 Apr; 28 Jul – 20 Aug; 17 Nov – 7 Dec
Venus retrograde: 2 Mar – 14 Apr
Mars retrograde: 2 Jan – 24 Mar
Jupiter retrograde: 15 Sept 1490 – 11 Jan; 19 Oct – 15 Feb 1492
Saturn retrograde: 9 May – 27 Sept
Uranus retrograde: 19 Apr – 20 Sept
Neptune retrograde: 21 Mar – 28 Aug
Pluto retrograde: 25 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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