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 36497	7.8884	07h 30m 32s	+13° 50’ 40”
Star	HIP 36771	7.8722	07h 33m 47s	+13° 24’ 29”
Star	HIP 36709	8.8904	07h 33m 02s	+13° 11’ 07”
Star	HIP 37045	7.7034	07h 36m 45s	+12° 51’ 55”
Star	HIP 37136	6.7854	07h 37m 50s	+14° 02’ 31”
Star	HIP 37282	8.301	07h 39m 20s	+14° 27’ 47”
Star	HIP 37066	8.7148	07h 37m 01s	+14° 53’ 20”
Star	HIP 36631	6.423	07h 31m 59s	+12° 39’ 41”
Star	HIP 36822	7.9996	07h 34m 19s	+14° 45’ 11”
Star	HIP 36551	8.807	07h 31m 07s	+14° 36’ 53”
Star	HIP 36485	7.0728	07h 30m 26s	+13° 51’ 54”
Star	HIP 36826	7.5726	07h 34m 25s	+14° 06’ 04”
Star	HIP 37147	8.9066	07h 38m 00s	+12° 48’ 05”
Star	HIP 36843	7.4654	07h 34m 32s	+12° 18’ 17”
Star	HIP 37135	6.7526	07h 37m 50s	+14° 20’ 26”
Galaxy	UGC 3936	14.0	07h 37m 03s	+13° 35’ 59”

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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