Sun live position and data

This page shows The Sun 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 The Sun (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 65332	8.4136	13h 23m 25s	-09° 24’ 25”
Star	HIP 65491	8.16	13h 25m 21s	-07° 35’ 02”
Star	HIP 64865	7.1856	13h 17m 44s	-08° 43’ 59”
Star	HIP 65163	7.11	13h 21m 12s	-09° 59’ 57”
Star	HIP 65078	8.6986	13h 20m 22s	-09° 03’ 34”
Star	HIP 65250	8.4656	13h 22m 18s	-08° 41’ 58”
Star	HIP 65232	8.6376	13h 22m 05s	-09° 03’ 34”
Star	HIP 65480	8.0266	13h 25m 14s	-08° 47’ 09”
Star	HIP 65030	8.4502	13h 19m 47s	-09° 06’ 20”
Star	HIP 64911	8.9812	13h 18m 18s	-09° 34’ 35”
Galaxy	PGC 46382	14.0	13h 18m 40s	-08° 26’ 45”

Additional resources

Additional Resources about The Sun

• Sunspots Today
• 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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