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 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 Saturn (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 109528	0	22h 11m 12s	-12° 51’ 41”
Star	HIP 109720	6.867	22h 13m 26s	-11° 55’ 33”
Star	HIP 110169	7.8276	22h 18m 55s	-11° 33’ 26”
Star	HIP 110217	8.5228	22h 19m 33s	-11° 54’ 59”
Star	HIP 110179	5.8514	22h 19m 00s	-13° 18’ 17”
Star	HIP 109672	8.7554	22h 13m 00s	-13° 01’ 40”
Star	HIP 109998	7.1476	22h 16m 45s	-11° 38’ 56”
Star	HIP 109970	8.0258	22h 16m 25s	-14° 02’ 41”
Star	HIP 110065	8.6954	22h 17m 38s	-12° 14’ 19”
Star	HIP 110375	8.9926	22h 21m 22s	-12° 11’ 08”
Star	HIP 110278	7.7258	22h 20m 16s	-12° 13’ 17”
Star	HIP 109762	8.9144	22h 13m 55s	-11° 35’ 22”
Star	HIP 109811	8.0154	22h 14m 30s	-12° 15’ 13”
Star	HIP 110000	5.2306	22h 16m 48s	-12° 49’ 53”
Star	HIP 109683	7.5114	22h 13m 06s	-13° 52’ 15”
Galaxy	PGC 68401	13.7	22h 15m 03s	-11° 31’ 04”

Additional resources

• 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.

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