James Webb Space Telescope live position and data

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 below 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 33851	0	07h 01m 36s	+06° 24’ 34”
Star	HIP 33206	7.2158	06h 54m 40s	+06° 43’ 26”
Star	HIP 33550	7.1518	06h 58m 21s	+06° 10’ 01”
Star	HIP 33435	8.8754	06h 57m 09s	+05° 06’ 08”
Star	HIP 33875	6.5854	07h 01m 55s	+05° 33’ 25”
Star	HIP 33267	7.8742	06h 55m 13s	+05° 26’ 02”
Star	HIP 33606	8.9858	06h 58m 58s	+06° 55’ 47”
Star	HIP 33253	8.024	06h 55m 07s	+04° 37’ 25”
Star	HIP 33854	6.6292	07h 01m 41s	+04° 49’ 05”
Star	HIP 33275	7.551	06h 55m 17s	+05° 54’ 37”
Star	HIP 33174	7.9172	06h 54m 18s	+05° 06’ 36”
Star	HIP 33509	7.6988	06h 57m 55s	+06° 32’ 56”
Star	HIP 34078	7.1458	07h 04m 02s	+05° 07’ 55”
Star	HIP 34056	8.3874	07h 03m 52s	+05° 51’ 39”
Star	HIP 33608	8.6076	06h 58m 59s	+05° 32’ 06”
Star	HIP 33626	7.8046	06h 59m 09s	+05° 17’ 06”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about James Webb Space Telescope

• 15 Days Ephemerides
• Interactive Sky Map (Planetarium)
• Rise & Set Times
• Distance from Earth

Astronomy databases

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

1. 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
2. The Hipparcos Star Catalogue, containing more than 100.000 bright stars
3. The PGC 2003 Catalogue, containing information about 1 million galaxies
4. The GSC 2.3 Catalogue, containing information about more than 2 billion stars and galaxies

Please see the acknowledgements section.

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