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.
- Pluto164 days♊︎ Gemini 3°18′♊︎ Gemini 1°19′
- Mercury20 days♑︎ Capricorn 13°26′♐︎ Sagittarius 27°11′
- Uranus152 days♏︎ Scorpio 12°02′♏︎ Scorpio 7°57′
- Neptune160 days♏︎ Scorpio 29°43′♏︎ Scorpio 26°57′
- Mercury24 days♉︎ Taurus 3°49′♈︎ Aries 23°36′
- Saturn138 days♓︎ Pisces 25°00′♓︎ Pisces 18°14′
- Jupiter119 days♓︎ Pisces 18°05′♓︎ Pisces 8°12′
- Mercury23 days♍︎ Virgo 10°22′♌︎ Leo 26°51′
- Pluto164 days♊︎ Gemini 4°16′♊︎ Gemini 2°17′
- Mars69 days♉︎ Taurus 17°17′♉︎ Taurus 2°06′
- Mercury20 days♐︎ Sagittarius 27°35′♐︎ Sagittarius 11°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: 17 Dec 1641 – 6 Jan; 9 Apr – 2 May; 11 Aug – 4 Sept; 1 Dec – 21 Dec
Venus: no retrograde period this year
Mars retrograde: 25 Sept – 4 Dec
Jupiter retrograde: 7 Jul – 3 Nov
Saturn retrograde: 6 Jul – 21 Nov
Uranus retrograde: 14 Feb – 16 Jul
Neptune retrograde: 1 Mar – 8 Aug
Pluto retrograde: 2 Sept 1641 – 13 Feb; 3 Sept – 14 Feb 1643
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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