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Retrograde dates for 2015

These are the exact dates every planet from Mercury to Pluto turns retrograde and turns direct in 2015, in Universal Time. Mercury is retrograde from 21 January 2015 to 11 February 2015, and from 19 May 2015 to 11 June 2015, and from 17 September 2015 to 9 October 2015.

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Mercury retrograde in 2015

Mercury is retrograde in 3 periods touching 2015.

Venus retrograde in 2015

Venus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

Mars retrograde in 2015

Mars does not turn retrograde or direct in 2015.

Jupiter retrograde in 2015

Jupiter is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

Saturn retrograde in 2015

Saturn is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

Uranus retrograde in 2015

Uranus is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

Neptune retrograde in 2015

Neptune is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

Pluto retrograde in 2015

Pluto is retrograde in 1 period touching 2015.

What “retrograde” means here

A planet is retrograde when its ecliptic longitude, seen from the Earth, is decreasing: it appears to move backwards against the stars. A station is the moment it appears to stop before changing direction. The Sun and the Moon never turn retrograde. Each date above is a station computed to the minute.

What these dates are worth

Every time on this page is computed by the engine that casts the charts, not copied from a table. All times are Universal Time (UT), so a date can fall a day either side of your own clock: add your time zone's offset to get local time. The Moon is checked against NASA and JPL values and the planets against published station and ingress dates; the table of what Umbriel checks, and how close it comes is public. Umbriel is for reflection and self-understanding, not prediction.

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