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 11°22′♊︎ Gemini 1°18′
- Neptune157 days♋︎ Cancer 27°02′♋︎ Cancer 24°13′
- Mercury22 days♓︎ Pisces 7°40′♒︎ Aquarius 23°04′
- Mercury24 days♋︎ Cancer 9°45′♋︎ Cancer 0°24′
- Uranus154 days♓︎ Pisces 9°07′♓︎ Pisces 5°12′
- Pluto165 days♈︎ Aries 10°08′♈︎ Aries 8°06′
- Saturn136 days♉︎ Taurus 2°33′♈︎ Aries 25°41′
- Mercury21 days♏︎ Scorpio 6°20′♎︎ Libra 20°32′
- Neptune157 days♋︎ Cancer 29°15′♋︎ Cancer 26°26′
- Jupiter119 days♋︎ Cancer 15°20′♋︎ Cancer 5°16′
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: 11 Feb – 5 Mar; 13 Jun – 8 Jul; 9 Oct – 30 Oct
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars: no retrograde period this year
Jupiter retrograde: 29 Sept 1585 – 25 Jan; 2 Nov – 1 Mar 1587
Saturn retrograde: 15 Aug – 28 Dec
Uranus retrograde: 13 Jun – 14 Nov
Neptune retrograde: 30 Oct 1585 – 4 Apr; 1 Nov – 7 Apr 1587
Pluto retrograde: 10 Jul – 22 Dec
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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