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Neptune live position and data

This page shows Neptune 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 Neptune (less than 1.5 degrees):

TypeNameMagnitudeArDec
StarHIP 1150308.692423h 17m 53s-04° 31’ 18”
StarHIP 1157208.169223h 26m 39s-05° 13’ 55”
StarHIP 1152576.049623h 20m 40s-05° 54’ 28”
StarHIP 1153166.77323h 21m 21s-04° 40’ 21”
StarHIP 1152608.089623h 20m 43s-06° 37’ 26”
StarHIP 1151425.546223h 19m 23s-05° 07’ 27”
StarHIP 1153117.186823h 21m 15s-06° 11’ 32”
StarHIP 1152206.60123h 20m 15s-03° 55’ 07”
StarHIP 1155998.720423h 24m 59s-05° 12’ 42”
StarHIP 1149777.425823h 17m 15s-04° 26’ 06”
StarHIP 1152528.380823h 20m 38s-06° 27’ 04”
StarHIP 1151058.762223h 18m 50s-05° 05’ 58”
GalaxyNGC 757613.723h 17m 22s-04° 43’ 41”
GalaxyNGC 758512.323h 18m 01s-04° 39’ 02”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Neptune

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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