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 86011	0	17h 34m 42s	-32° 34’ 53”
Star	HIP 86197	0	17h 36m 53s	-34° 02’ 36”
Star	HIP 86545	8.1834	17h 41m 10s	-33° 58’ 07”
Star	HIP 86001	8.9102	17h 34m 38s	-33° 39’ 49”
Star	HIP 86572	7.4894	17h 41m 30s	-34° 04’ 24”
Star	HIP 86025	8.0564	17h 34m 48s	-34° 54’ 32”
Star	HIP 85786	6.2826	17h 31m 47s	-33° 42’ 11”
Star	HIP 85885	7.2666	17h 33m 06s	-33° 03’ 27”
Star	HIP 86887	8.7776	17h 45m 09s	-33° 49’ 26”
Star	HIP 86322	7.8064	17h 38m 16s	-32° 52’ 24”
Star	HIP 86551	7.7386	17h 41m 15s	-34° 58’ 08”
Star	HIP 86146	8.3678	17h 36m 16s	-33° 18’ 22”
Star	HIP 86624	6.6586	17h 41m 59s	-33° 30’ 13”
Star	HIP 86716	6.2548	17h 43m 06s	-33° 03’ 04”
Star	HIP 86535	8.4582	17h 41m 04s	-34° 53’ 45”
Star	HIP 86115	8.5592	17h 35m 54s	-33° 50’ 56”
Star	HIP 86342	8.3274	17h 38m 37s	-33° 03’ 07”
Star	HIP 86293	8.9894	17h 37m 55s	-34° 47’ 47”
Star	HIP 85839	6.1298	17h 32m 24s	-34° 16’ 45”
Star	HIP 86752	7.71	17h 43m 36s	-34° 04’ 53”
Star	HIP 86256	8.276	17h 37m 32s	-34° 38’ 46”
Star	HIP 86558	8.3842	17h 41m 19s	-33° 41’ 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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James Webb Space Telescope Live Position Tracker

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