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 100533	7.7824	20h 23m 07s	-18° 20’ 32”
Star	HIP 100950	8.9934	20h 28m 04s	-20° 18’ 17”
Star	HIP 100470	8.4252	20h 22m 27s	-19° 46’ 52”
Star	HIP 100563	8.2308	20h 23m 30s	-20° 31’ 46”
Star	HIP 101111	8.5208	20h 29m 43s	-19° 05’ 26”
Star	HIP 100740	8.8282	20h 25m 27s	-21° 09’ 26”
Star	HIP 100290	6.8	20h 20m 28s	-19° 38’ 49”
Star	HIP 100608	8.5878	20h 24m 05s	-21° 10’ 17”
Star	HIP 100216	7.6078	20h 19m 33s	-19° 54’ 45”
Star	HIP 100805	7.5046	20h 26m 21s	-19° 09’ 07”
Star	HIP 100393	8.8958	20h 21m 32s	-19° 04’ 31”
Star	HIP 100770	8.2204	20h 25m 53s	-18° 28’ 57”
Star	HIP 100195	5.1294	20h 19m 23s	-19° 07’ 06”
Star	HIP 100713	6.7294	20h 25m 04s	-19° 26’ 01”
Galaxy	NGC 6903	12.9	20h 23m 44s	-19° 19’ 28”

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.

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