James Webb Space Telescope Live Position Tracker

This page shows James Webb Space Telescope location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details). The sky map shown in the background represents a rectangular portion of the sky 60x40 arcminutes wide. By comparison the diameter of the full Moon is about 30 arcmins, so the full horizontal extent of the map is approximately 2 full Moons wide. Depending on the device you are using, the map can be dragged horizondally or vertically using the mouse or touchscreen. The deep sky image in the background is provided by the Digitized Sky Survey (acknowledgements).

Current close conjunctions

List of bright objects (stars brighter than magnitude 9.0 and galaxies brighter than magmitude 14.0) close to James Webb Space Telescope (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 88691	8.0326	18h 06m 20s	-34° 18’ 54”
Star	HIP 89010	6.3058	18h 09m 59s	-32° 43’ 09”
Star	HIP 89525	8.1782	18h 16m 05s	-33° 18’ 39”
Star	HIP 89066	7.0326	18h 10m 41s	-33° 55’ 07”
Star	HIP 88926	8.8338	18h 09m 08s	-33° 19’ 00”
Star	HIP 89086	6.1388	18h 10m 55s	-33° 48’ 00”
Star	HIP 88677	8.5472	18h 06m 11s	-32° 39’ 56”
Star	HIP 89146	7.1272	18h 11m 40s	-35° 01’ 31”
Star	HIP 89176	8.2544	18h 11m 56s	-32° 39’ 06”
Star	HIP 88918	8.711	18h 09m 01s	-34° 45’ 42”
Star	HIP 89423	8.2958	18h 15m 00s	-33° 35’ 51”
Star	HIP 89357	7.8936	18h 14m 02s	-34° 17’ 21”
Star	HIP 89127	7.5664	18h 11m 23s	-33° 19’ 36”
Star	HIP 89321	8.4334	18h 13m 33s	-33° 29’ 54”
Star	HIP 88492	6.8568	18h 04m 09s	-34° 03’ 11”
Star	HIP 89199	8.6204	18h 12m 13s	-32° 16’ 53”
Star	HIP 89486	6.9264	18h 15m 40s	-33° 05’ 29”
Star	HIP 88369	7.4498	18h 02m 42s	-33° 53’ 21”
Star	HIP 89016	7.6566	18h 10m 03s	-32° 08’ 37”
Star	HIP 88925	8.3098	18h 09m 07s	-33° 33’ 49”
Star	HIP 89189	7.2344	18h 12m 06s	-34° 04’ 07”
Star	HIP 89404	8.4652	18h 14m 42s	-33° 08’ 27”
Star	HIP 88618	8.994	18h 05m 36s	-33° 18’ 40”
Star	HIP 89105	8.8232	18h 11m 07s	-32° 59’ 26”

Additional resources

Astronomy databases

This online sky chart is created using the following astronomy databases and services:

The Digitized Sky Survey, a photographic survey of the whole sky created using images from different telescopes, including the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain
The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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