Why does CyberSky show the Sun in the wrong place?
One of the most frequently-reported bugs in CyberSky is that the program shows the Sun in the wrong constellation on a specific date. For example, if you were born between July 23 and August 22, your astrological sign or “Sun sign” is Leo, which means that the Sun is in Leo on your birthday. Yet, CyberSky shows that the Sun is in Leo from about August 10 to about September 15, which doesn’t make sense. This confusion arises because astrological signs and astronomical constellations aren’t the same thing. The area of the sky through which the Sun, Moon, and planets move is called the zodiac. It’s centered on the ecliptic, the Sun’s path across the sky. Several thousand years ago, the zodiac was divided into twelve parts, each exactly 30 wide, called signs. Although each of these signs corresponded to a group of stars at that time, the signs were fixed to the ecliptic rather than to those stars. Since the time the astrological signs were invented, the gyration of the Earth’s axis of rota
