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 5°14′♊︎ Gemini 3°15′
- Uranus152 days♏︎ Scorpio 21°10′♏︎ Scorpio 17°06′
- Mercury23 days♓︎ Pisces 28°15′♓︎ Pisces 15°03′
- Neptune160 days♐︎ Sagittarius 4°04′♐︎ Sagittarius 1°17′
- Mercury24 days♌︎ Leo 3°36′♋︎ Cancer 22°43′
- Saturn136 days♈︎ Aries 20°50′♈︎ Aries 14°00′
- Venus42 days♎︎ Libra 4°02′♍︎ Virgo 18°04′
- Pluto164 days♊︎ Gemini 6°12′♊︎ Gemini 4°13′
- Jupiter118 days♊︎ Gemini 1°24′♉︎ Taurus 21°22′
- Mercury20 days♏︎ Scorpio 25°55′♏︎ Scorpio 9°49′
- Mars77 days♋︎ Cancer 6°09′♊︎ Gemini 17°45′
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: 3 Mar – 26 Mar; 6 Jul – 30 Jul; 29 Oct – 18 Nov
Venus retrograde: 28 Aug – 9 Oct
Mars retrograde: 8 Nov – 23 Jan 1645
Jupiter retrograde: 19 Sept – 15 Jan 1645
Saturn retrograde: 1 Aug – 16 Dec
Uranus retrograde: 24 Feb – 25 Jul
Neptune retrograde: 5 Mar – 12 Aug
Pluto retrograde: 4 Sept 1643 – 16 Feb; 4 Sept – 16 Feb 1645
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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