Planetary Alignment on my Date of Birth

[porselin13]

Would someone direct me to a specialist, website or any other way of
find out how the planets were aligned on my date of birth. I was born August 03, 1978 at 10:07am. I want a tattoo of all the 9 planets (including the sun and the Earth moon) as they were aligned on my date of birth. Can someone help me please?

 

[JesseM]

Here's one site, but you probably want to check at least one or two others to make sure they all agree (and this one doesn't have the moon, unfortunately):

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar

(also, note the different display options, like real vs. logarithmic vs. equally spaced orbit sizes, and the option to zoom in on the inner system...)

 

[JesseM]

Here's a downloadable simulator:

http://www.pwr-tools.com/simsolar/

And another with a demo version you can download:

http://www.3dinteractivo.com/

But the best free simulator out there is probably "Celestia":

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

 

[tony873004]

http://orbitsimulator.com/orbiter/1978a.GIF
http://orbitsimulator.com/orbiter/1978b.GIF
http://orbitsimulator.com/orbiter/1978c.GIF

 

[yourdadonapogostick]

if it were to scale that would be a VERY big tattoo.

 

[Phobos]

at least it wouldn't take much ink (unless you show orbital paths)

 

[DaveC426913]

What about 2003UB213?? Your tatoo will be out-of-date the moment the ink dries without it!

 

[DaveC426913]

Based on Tony's data.

You want alignment, not scale, right? So it'd look something like this:

 

[DaveC426913]

Wow. Did you know that, on your birthdate, every single planet in the Solar System was on the opposite side of the Sun from Earth?

 

[JesseM]

What about 2003UB213?? Your tatoo will be out-of-date the moment the ink dries without it!

Maybe it'd be better to leave out Pluto, it's just sort of a historical accident that it was called a planet, a bit like if Ceres had been discovered before it was realized that it was just a member of a large family of asteroids in the asteroid belt. There are probably other Kuiper belt/Oort cloud objects even further out than Pluto and 2003UB213 that are in the same size range but just haven't been discovered yet.

 

[DaveC426913]

Well, I guess the best guideline for what should - and should not - be included should be what the SS looked like on that date. Thus 2003UB213 is not included, but Pluto is. Any other way would date the tattoo.