Saturn live position and data

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

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 88932	8.7642	18h 09m 12s	-22° 11’ 00”
Star	HIP 89607	8.0226	18h 17m 09s	-22° 10’ 11”
Star	HIP 89153	4.8568	18h 11m 43s	-23° 42’ 04”
Star	HIP 88876	6.4288	18h 08m 38s	-21° 26’ 58”
Star	HIP 88943	7.3456	18h 09m 17s	-23° 59’ 18”
Star	HIP 88721	7.6018	18h 06m 46s	-22° 27’ 52”
Star	HIP 89369	5.326	18h 14m 15s	-21° 42’ 47”
Star	HIP 89276	6.9856	18h 13m 02s	-23° 07’ 02”
Star	HIP 89071	7.6924	18h 10m 44s	-22° 14’ 22”
Star	HIP 88884	7.9418	18h 08m 44s	-22° 09’ 38”
Star	HIP 89497	8.5006	18h 15m 49s	-23° 48’ 55”
Star	HIP 89468	8.6464	18h 15m 30s	-23° 07’ 01”
Star	HIP 89029	8.571	18h 10m 14s	-21° 19’ 37”
Star	HIP 89046	8.3392	18h 10m 30s	-23° 33’ 59”
Star	HIP 88942	7.8036	18h 09m 17s	-22° 54’ 26”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about Saturn

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

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.

Close