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 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 The Sun (less than 1.5 degrees):

Type	Name	Magnitude	Ar	Dec
Star	HIP 21881	4.2734	04h 42m 14s	+22° 57’ 25”
Star	HIP 21399	8.0722	04h 35m 36s	+22° 01’ 14”
Star	HIP 21120	7.4922	04h 31m 35s	+22° 50’ 42”
Star	HIP 21840	8.4666	04h 41m 43s	+22° 43’ 53”
Star	HIP 21856	8.8284	04h 41m 59s	+21° 30’ 32”
Star	HIP 21459	5.998	04h 36m 29s	+23° 20’ 27”
Star	HIP 21637	7.453	04h 38m 51s	+23° 09’ 00”
Star	HIP 21341	6.731	04h 34m 45s	+22° 41’ 32”
Star	HIP 21604	5.8654	04h 38m 15s	+20° 41’ 05”
Star	HIP 21380	8.828	04h 35m 17s	+23° 02’ 43”
Star	HIP 21158	7.024	04h 32m 07s	+21° 37’ 56”
Star	HIP 21318	8.3414	04h 34m 35s	+21° 06’ 20”
Star	HIP 21436	7.535	04h 36m 13s	+21° 32’ 11”
Star	HIP 21677	8.583	04h 39m 13s	+22° 39’ 08”
Star	HIP 21706	8.0474	04h 39m 38s	+21° 31’ 03”
Star	HIP 21442	8.12	04h 36m 17s	+21° 41’ 21”

Additional resources

• 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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